George Cassidy Payne

Along Monroe Avenue, buildings don’t just stand. They lean into traffic, watch the sidewalks and quietly record the neighborhood’s evolution. The Monroe Theatre, with its Art Deco façade still intact and its marquee frozen mid-thought, feels less like an abandoned structure than an unfinished sentence. People notice it. They ask about it. They debate it. […]

For nearly a century, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School sat like a sentinel above the city, perched on the hill at 1100 South Goodman St., its Gothic towers peering over Highland Park. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, the same architect who left his mark on Yale and Columbia, the campus radiated a stately stillness that […]

On a crisp November morning in Rochester, the doors of the annual Native Made Market will once again swing open, and the room will hum with voices, laughter, drums, rattles and the quiet shuffle of footsteps across wooden floors. For founder Angelina Marie Hilton, the annual event, which returns on Saturday, Nov. 29 for year […]

The fog drifts in like a breath held too long. The trees hush. Near the edge of Lake Ontario, a story lingers. You’re walking the winding trails of Durand Eastman Park. Maybe alone, maybe not. Maybe you’ve heard the tale before, around a bonfire on the beach or whispered over too many Genesee Cream Ales. […]