Chris Gemignani

City Seeks New Name for Midtown Plaza and Street

On Monday we had some fun     climbing to the top of Midtown Tower    . Today we can have some more fun with Midtown. The City of Rochester is asking the public to name the new street and plaza being built at the Midtown site...

Anonymous Photos: Inside Midtown Tower

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

Into the Incinerator

Last week we looked at some photos of the     Beebee Station    power plant at High Falls. That post drew some comments about another interesting facility nearby which is sometimes confused with Beebee; the City's old garbage incinerator plant on     Falls Street

Powers Building, Main & State Streets, 1968

Check out this great photo of the Powers Building from 1968. Notice the workmen up on the ledge of the Mansard roof. Down at street level a shiny new, streamlined facade as been awkwardly forced on top of this 1869 building...