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Final Mural's Unveiling Due

At Oneonta History Center

AllOTSEGO.com Managing Editor Libby Cudmore and photographer Ian Austin were models for Brown's Hardware. (AllOTSEGO.com photo)

ONEONTA – Wilber Bank, the last of the Dietz Street murals depicting the five historic occupants of the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., will be unveiled at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3.

Wilber Bank’s first location in Oneonta was in the southwest corner of the first floor of Walter  Brown’s hardware store in the building now owned by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. After a fire in David Wilber’s bank in Milford, his friend Walter Brown offered space in his business.

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