The current government and economics building, is named for Colton-born entrepreneur and philanthropist A. Barton Hepburn (1846-1922), whose name also graces the hospital in Ogdensburg and several local libraries. It was constructed in 1926 thanks to the donation of Hepburn's widow, Emily Eaton Hepburn, and was dedicated three years later by Nobel Prize-winning chemist Mme. Marie Curie.
