Businesses located at 12 State Street: The business of James McCarthy, a grocer. Alexander McCrea, Baker and Confectioner, A wholesale and retail baker and confectioner. McCrea made plain and ornamental cakes and confectionaries to order. He also sold coal under the branding of A. McCrea & Co. on the corner of State St. and Water St. The business was established in 1834.
Source of Building Data: 1875 Boyd's Auburn Directory, 1875-6, containing the names of its citizens, a compendium of its government, and of the public and private institutions, together with a Business Directory of Union Springs, Aurora, and villages on the Southern Central Railway.