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400–404 Main / 111–115 East Fourth, Northeast corner of Main and East Fourth Streets Rochester: August 21, 1987: Willard M. McConnell House: 206 Auburn Avenue Pontiac: January 20, 1984: McPherson Oil Co. Service Station: 239 N Main Street Milford: July 19, 1990: Meadow Brook Farms† 480 South Adams Road Rochester Hills: November 3, 1976
Rochester was founded as a trading post in 1831 between the European settlers and local Native Americans, along the old Michigan Road where it intersected Mill Creek. Most of the contributing buildings lie along the old Michigan Road, now Main Street, in a right-of-way pattern (the newer, non-contributing buildings do not follow this pattern). [3]
Established in 1817, Rochester was one of Oakland County's first settlements. Twenty-two buildings on Main Street are more than 50 years old, and several are on the State Register of Historic Places. Rollin Sprague Building – The oldest commercial building in the downtown is the Rollin Sprague building, built in 1849 of coursed cobblestone ...
Rochester Road (known as Main Street in downtown Rochester)—splits off from Main Street (Livernois) at Catalpa; runs diagonally to meet Stephenson just south of I-75. Follows grid alignment from I-75 north to Attica. Designated M-150 from M-59 north to downtown Rochester. Grid position assumed by Campbell and Hilton from 14 Mile south.
A Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California in November 2010. The United States was the first country to have Google Street View images and was the only country with images for over a year following introduction of the service on May 25, 2007. Early on, most locations had a limited number of views, usually ...
It is more commonly known as Rochester Road and runs from a southern terminus at the M-59 freeway north through downtown Rochester to a northern terminus at Tienken Road. M-150 has been a state trunkline since around 1930, and within a few years of its commissioning, it was extended south through Royal Oak and north into rural Oakland County .
107 N. Main St. Standish: The Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot is a Richardsonian Romanesque structure built using fieldstones gathered by local farmers. It served as a passenger depot until 1955, and is currently used as a welcome center along US 23.
Rollin Sprague was born in Ontario County, New York in 1806. He moved with his family to Oakland County by 1821, and by 1831 was a prominent local physician. in that year, he opened a drug store in Rochester in a partnership with his father-in-law, David Cooper.