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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 - 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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Southeast Neighborhoods - ABC Streets
Art Gallery, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, and historic East Avenue churches and mansions … Avenue Historic District, the ABC Streets Neighborhood is a vibrant urban community encompassing more … and restaurant scene and many outstanding Rochester institutions, including the George Eastman Museum, Memorial …
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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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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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News Release - Buy The Block’s Six Model Homes Completed
City of Rochester News Release (Thursday, April 13, 2023 … towards rectifying the injustices of historic redlining that took place in our city. As we build new … in the American Rescue Plan, it was because I not only wanted to see communities like Rochester recover, but also …
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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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Northwest Neighborhoods - Charlotte
events like the Rochester Harbor and Carousel Festival. Each winter, the Lakeside Winter celebration … of the environmental and historical assets within its boundaries, which begin on the east at the Genesee River, reach … west to the boundary of the Town of Greece, south to historic 19th century Holy Sepulcre and Riverside …
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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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Environmental Cleanup- Emerson Street (former landfill site)
) is a closed municipal solid waste landfill located in the western portion of the City of Rochester, bounded … limited SVI testing at many of the properties on FESL. The historic information, subsurface testing … for determining the potential for SVI at each parcel due to the FESL. Starting in 2009 the City of Rochester …
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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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News Release - Online Community Forum on New York’s Cannabis Industry
City of Rochester News Release Notable News: Online Form … information on how Rochester residents can participate in the New York’s cannabis industry as the State …/legalmarijuana. “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance equity in Rochester due …
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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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Southeast Neighborhoods - Lock 66
historic origins trace back to the Erie Canal, the amazing waterway built in the early 1800's that opened …. In time, Lock 66 was dismantled when the canal bed was replaced by the Rochester trolley line, next … medicine, Dr. Charles Sumner. Dr. Sumner practiced medicine in the Rochester Homeopathic Hospital when …
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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 …