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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 - 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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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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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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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 …
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Southeast Neighborhoods - Neighborhood of The Arts
more than any other Rochester neighborhood, The Neighborhood of the Arts (NOTA) projects a very notable … Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Writers and Books Image City Photography Gallery Within … and archives in the world. It also includes the 535-seat historic Dryden Theater and world-leading training …
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Southeast Neighborhoods - Browncroft
neighborhood. Over 400 homes are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Large houses fronted … be found in this historic district. This glorious confluence of residences and landscape design … developer of the area. The residential neighborhood attracts many of Rochester’s most prominent public …
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Northwest Neighborhoods - Edgerton, Dewey and Driving Park
(NIMROD) “Great character” are words often used to describe the historic Edgerton Neighborhood. Along Lake … Avenue, once Rochester’s most prestigious, distinctive 19th century grand dame residences bump elbows …, as a library, museum, winter zoo, exposition site and hockey rink. The “Rochester Cardinals” Hockey team played …
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Southwest Neighborhoods - Upper Mount Hope
district” - for its plethora of doctors and medical students from the University of Rochester Medical … River on the west. Green space still abounds: Mark’s Park, on Westmoreland Drive along the historic Erie … not just for University of Rochester students, but for the entire city. Nearby West Henrietta Road …
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Southeast Neighborhoods - Upper Monroe
and Hinsdale Streets. Using a NeighborGood grant from the Rochester Area Foundation, the group designed … and built some 28 garden beds in the growing season of 2010. The Garden is named after a historic section …. The Wide Water Gardens is a joint project between the UMNA, Third Rochester Enterprises Corporation (TREC …
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Focused Investment at Holy Rosary
representatives and the development team to celebrate the beginning of the adaptive reuse of this historic … property into much-needed affordable housing for Rochester’s Edgerton Neighborhood. "The Holy Rosary campus … of the work that Providence Housing performs in the Rochester community- creating opportunities where none …