Chris Gemignani

View of Downtown Rochester from Kodak Tower

Here    is a neat view I came across while rummaging around in the Local History Department at the Rochester Public Library. The image is of State Street with downtown Rochester in the background, taken from one of the top floors of Kodak tower...

Inside the Abandoned Vacuum Oil Refinery

This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me

Filling In: Zoning Part 4, All the Other Zones

Well, it had to come to this - a whirlwind article about everything else in Rochester. We're going to run the gamut from Industrial, to all the Center City District (CCD) zones to Open Space, and everything inbetween. Buckle Up...

Bell Tower from Rochester School #7, Rediscovered

Every so often we're contacted by a lucky homeowner who discovers a neat little historical treasure hidden away in their basement or roof rafters - usually an old book or a subway token. Then there's Bill Schmidt. When Bill purchased his home on     Lake View Park