Reynolds Arcade is an office building located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York.
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| Location | 16 E. Main St., Rochester, New York |
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| Coordinates | 43°9′21″N 77°36′44″W / 43.15583°N 77.61222°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1933 |
| Architect | Gordon & Kaelber |
| Architectural style | Art Deco |
| MPS | Inner Loop MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 85002855[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 4, 1985 |
Overview
editIt is an eleven-story, Art Deco style commercial / office building with arcaded shops on the first floor. It was built in 1933[2] of steel frame construction and is faced on the exterior with Indiana limestone. The central portion of the building is a five bay, eleven story "tower" which steps back from the fifth floor.[3]
It replaced a building with the same name that was constructed in 1829. The most ambitious structure in Rochester at that time, it was, according to Joseph W. Barnes, a Rochester City Historian, "the center of Rochester downtown life for more than a century."[4]
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Recognition
editIt was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Barnes, Joseph W.; Barnes, Robert W. (October 1974). "From Books to Multimedia: A History of the Reynolds Library and the Reynolds Audio-Visual Department of the Rochester Public Library" (PDF). Rochester History. XXXVI (4). Monroe County Library System: 21–22.
- ^ Ted Bartlett (August 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Reynolds Arcade". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2009-11-01. See also: "Accompanying two photos".
- ^ Barnes and Barnes (1974), p. 3