Old homes tucked into city neighborhoods; big, stoic dairy barns reminding us of an earlier time; massive cathedrals on modern urban streets — the buildings left us by earlier generations contribute character and elegance to the Greater Rochester’s landscape. But these places offer more than just quaint history; they are resources that can be used […]
Preservation 2005
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Barn raising
As iconic as the barn is — it can represent in the American imagination the whole farming lifestyle and economy — it isn’t often recognized for its value as a historic building. Not an office building or a home, where the value is more obvious, or even a school or a factory, where new uses […]
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Endangered places
Much of our region’s character can be found in its architecture: The homes, industrial buildings, schools, office buildings, and churches that were built when Rochester’s star was rising. Now many of these buildings are abandoned or are facing vacancy or bankruptcy, while new developments and building projects crop up all around. If these older structures […]
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Something old, something new: old-house fix-ups
One of the Rochester area’s biggest treasures is often overlooked, and, worse, underappreciated: its extraordinary number of old, ordinary, early 20th-centuryhouses. When we think of “preservation,” we think of the mansions on East Avenue, the Victorian groupings in villages like Pittsford and Spencerport, the Frank Lloyd Wright house on East Boulevard. These are important. But […]
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Old but not forgotten
Old homes tucked into city neighborhoods; big, stoic dairy barns reminding us of an earlier time; massive cathedrals on modern urban streets — the buildings left us by earlier generations contribute character and elegance to the Greater Rochester’s landscape. But these places offer more than just quaint history; they are resources that can be used […]
