At 135 Main, on the corner across Center Street, stands the Old Bank, designed by William Fenno Pratt and built in 1866, with a cast iron front that was a modern innovation at the time. On the morning of January 26, 1876, it was the scene of the largest bank robbery in the history of the United States, when the so-called Rufus Gang, after staking out the bank for weeks, escaped with more than $1.6 million in cash and securities, surpassing, by today's standards, the Brink's heist and the Great Train Robbery. Although the vault, equipped with the latest technology, was believed impervious to thieves, a band of seven New Yorkers had the help of the man who had installed the safe. The Pinkerton Detective Agency eventually apprehended two of the robbers, while the rest were never charged. Beyond the Old Bank, at 175 Main, stood the Warner House tavern, built by Asahel Pomeroy in 1792, purchased by Oliver Warner in 1821, and celebrated as a stop on the Boston and Albany stage route, where a trumpet blast announced each stage's arrival before bustle gave way again to tranquility at its departure. In 1825, after riding through town in an open carriage, the Marquis de Lafayette was welcomed and entertained there and addressed the assembled citizens of Northampton from the Warner House balcony. By the 1840s, hotels expanded to accommodate travelers arriving on the newly built railroad, and after the Warner House burned in 1870, it was replaced by the Fitch House, which later became the Draper Hotel, whose remaining wing still bears a monogram F on its façade.