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History of Rochester, New York. An aerial view of downtown Rochester from 1938. Urban Rochester as seen from the air. Settlement of the city of Rochester in western New York State began in the late 18th century, and the city flourished with the opening of the Erie Canal. It became a major manufacturing center, and attracted many Italians ...
The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as George Eastman House and the International Museum of Photography and Film, [3][4][5] is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography [6][7] and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York. World-renowned for its collections in the fields of ...
NRHP reference No. 88002199 [1] Added to NRHP. November 15, 1988. Black Watch Library is a historic library building located at Ticonderoga in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1905 and is a one-story brick structure with a cruciform plan in the Jacobean Revival style. It features a blue / green slate gable roof with projecting rafter ends.
Statue of Frederick Douglass. A statue of Frederick Douglass sculpted by Stanley W. Edwards, sometimes called the Frederick Douglass Monument, [1] was installed in Rochester, New York in 1899 [2] after it was commissioned by the African-American activist John W. Thompson. [2][3] According to Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora ...
Coordinates: 43°9′9.2″N77°35′14.8″W43.152556°N 77.587444°W. The RMSC campus as viewed from the outside. The Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) is a museum in Rochester, New York, dedicated to community education in science, technology and local history. The museum also operates the Strasenburgh Planetarium, located next to the ...
History. The Round Lake Library was originally known as The Free Library and Reading Room and opened July 6, 1897 with 400 books donated by residents of the village. It was the second library in Saratoga County and the first to have its own building. WRILS rented the Clark House for $150 per year in order to house the Library and the building ...
The Claverack Free Library is located on NY 23B near the center of the hamlet of Claverack-Red Mills, New York, United States. It is located in the renovated former A.B. Shaw Firehouse. The library itself formally dates to 1891. It had been in several buildings before the expansion of nearby NY 9H forced it to move a short distance west to its ...
Fulton Public Library. 160 S. First St., Fulton, New York. Fulton Public Library is a historic library building located at Fulton in Oswego County, New York. It is a masonry structure built in 1905–1906 in the Beaux-Arts style. The building is built on a steeply sloped lot and is two stories at street level and four stories behind.