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Historic Preservation - The Rochester Preservation Ordinance
Historic Preservation - The Rochester Preservation Ordinance … Guidelines To better define what is appropriate in historic settings, the Rochester Preservation Board … and doors are character-defining components of buildings and especially of historic buildings. The Rochester …
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Historic Preservation - Rochester's Parkland Inventory
Historic Preservation - Rochester's Parkland Inventory …Rochester's Historic Parkland Inventory In 2009 a survey … in PDF format Rochester Historic Parks Survey Small Parks and Squares
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Historic Preservation - Designated Buildings of Historic Value
Rochester’s historic buildings and landscapes are truly …Historic Preservation - Designated Buildings of Historic Value … 120-158C for any area outside Center City. Designated Buildings of Historic Value [list] are all those …
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Historic Village Trustees and City Council Proceedings
Rochester’s history and historic documents visit: Rochester Municipal Archives Office of the City Historian … Rochester Historical Society
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Southeast Neighborhoods - Lilac Neighborhood
Neighbors area residents have ample reasons to tout their lovely southeast corner of Rochester. Its … tree-lined, garden-bordered streets are nestled between two historic green spaces - Mt. Hope Cemetery … DeForest. Warner Castle now houses the non-profit Rochester Civic Garden Center, the Horticultural …
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Southwest Neighborhoods - High Falls
buildings within this Nationally Registered Historic District, but that number is changing as more people … recognize the area’s remarkable past and contemporary possibilities. Indisputably, Rochester’s commercial … commercial enterprises. Add the Erie Canal to the mix and Rochester’s boomtown ethos led to its nickname …
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Erie Lackawanna Rails-to-Trails Pedestrian Bridge
historic Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Bridge over the Genesee River is now a part of that vision …, as a Rails-to-Trails pedestrian bridge. The bridge was originally constructed in the 1850s to carry the Rochester …’s State Historic Preservation Office to be a cultural resource eligible for inclusion in the State …
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Southwest Neighborhoods - Susan B. Anthony
a culturally and economically diverse community with charming historic homes and nearby affordable rentals … was a great transportation hub for early Rochester. Nearby were two canals, the Erie and the Genesee Valley …, the largest turning basin for the canal boats. Also nearby was the Tonawanda Railroad, Rochester’s first rail …
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Southwest Neighborhoods - Corn Hill
Southwest Quadrant - Corn Hill Corn Hill, Rochester's … its western and south edges. Within these boundaries, historic 19th century mansions are located … nesters in a rainbow of colors. City founder Col. Nathaniel Rochester lived in Corn Hill along …
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Northeast Neighborhoods - Marketview Heights
of Rochester Public Market, since 1905, the area's most prominent landmark has been the historic Rochester … to date with special events at the market! Settlement houses Historically, Northeast Rochester was a main …, the neighborhood is abuzz with change from enhancements on the North Union Street Corridor at the Rochester Public …
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Southeast Neighborhoods - South Wedge
welcomed an expanded Rochester Indie Music Fest to the Historic German Club on Gregory Street. Annual …, and this spirit continues in one of Rochester’s most diverse and vibrant neighborhoods. Abolitionist, women’s … Street. In 1973, Dr. Judy Lee Hay combined pastoral work and community building at the historic 19th …
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Southeast Neighborhoods - Culver University East
Winton Road. The East Avenue Historic Preservation District, with its stately mansions and park-like … and residents, continues to protect East Avenue’s historic ambiance in the face of local commercial impacts …. CUE meets four times a year at the Rochester Academy of Medicine on East Avenue, the former home …
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City Neighborhoods, Housing & More
and learn more about the home-buying process. Or, find places to rent. Our Historic Places Rochester's … for guidance, visit Rochester's neighborhoods. We boast the best of urban living: porches for sitting … For an up-to-date view of houses for sale in Rochester, visit Rochester City Living, an easy-to-navigate website …
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Erie Canal: The One and Only
River is what turned Rochester from a frontier outpost to a buzzing young community. But it was the Erie … Canal that transformed Rochester into "The Young Lion of the West." Completed in 1825 after a Herculean … vessels --the canal ceased to course through the heart of downtown Rochester; the amazing aqueduct over …
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Public Market - Well Over a Century of Service
the village of Rochester only had a few thousand residents and the municipal market was built partially over … Market, Rochester's first major civic undertaking, built on the river's east side between the Andrews … in the community also inspires historic preservation--because the historic elements of the Market are key to making …
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Northwest Neighborhoods - Dutchtown
Northwest Quadrant - Dutchtown Visitors to Rochester’s … Dutchtown Neighborhood may expect some historical connection to Holland. However, while it may hold gardens … German settlers. These settlers migrated from Frankfort, Rochester’s earliest settlement along …
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Northwest Neighborhoods - Maplewood
older homes that increase in value (many are listed in the National Register of Historic Places … neighborhood’s boundaries reach west to Mt. Read Blvd., north to the historic Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and east …, Rochester Driving Park, from 1874 to 1895. Along with the racetrack, it also hosted exhibition shows …
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Southwest Neighborhoods - Changing of The Scenes
with the trolleys’ arrival. Here the area’s second hospital, originally named “City” and later named Rochester … the small area, churches abound. Residents can worship at the historic 700-member Mt. Olivet Baptist Church … on Adams Street. This church opened in 1910 as the first Baptist Church in Rochester specifically …
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Northeast Neighborhoods - Upper Falls
, at the east end of the Bausch Memorial Bridge in the City of Rochester. The memorial was designed by Walter H … Rothwell and Rush Rhees of the University of Rochester. The memorial still stands and there are plans …, Mount Vernon and Antioch Baptist Churches, are remembered for their historic role in the riots. Both …
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Southeast Neighborhoods - Pearl Meigs Monroe
The Pearl-Meigs-Monroe Neighborhood is several blocks from Rochester’s foremost green spaces of Highland Park and Cobbs … of restaurants, boutiques, a yoga studio, an art center, the historic Monroe Branch Public Library and a YMCA … for President James Monroe, the area was one of two historic roadways between the original settlement …