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Municipal Archives and Records Center
cubic feet of the City's government records and archival materials. Access the Collections Archive … Collections The Archival Collections contain the history of Rochester's government. The Minutes … information on the first formal government of Rochester. These handwritten volumes contain the earliest laws …
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Historic Village Trustees and City Council Proceedings
in the new government while contemplating the village's first bylaws. Less than a month later, on June 2 ….) The new laws also demonstrated a common nineteenth-century concern caused by having wooden buildings …, the New York State Legislature approved a plan to build the Erie Canal along a path through the center …
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Preserving Our Heritage
in engaging that history each day as we move through its buildings and landscape. We recognize the importance … to protecting Rochester's many beautiful and distinctive buildings and neighborhoods. On these pages, you …. Successful preservation requires us to do more than determine which buildings are worthy of safekeeping. We …
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Historic Preservation - The Rochester Preservation Ordinance
the listing here), just a small share of the buildings and landscapes eligible for historic designation … and a half long district is lined with an extraordinarily consistent array of elegant buildings. Regarded …, this compact district contains a variety of small-scale residential buildings. The neighborhood is the last …
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Office of the City Historian
presentations, 3) historic preservation (documents, artifacts, and buildings), and 4) organization, advocacy … on Public History’s Government Historians Committee. Deputy Historian Michelle Finn was appointed Deputy …
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News Release - Jackson R-Center Boxing Club Sends First Rochester Woman to U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Second Female Boxer Ranks 3rd in the Nation
R-Center boxing program is just one of the many pathways the City offers youth so they, too, can build … boxing. It is a registered boxing club under USA Boxing, which is the national governing body …