Remembering Rochester

The Charles Kelley Griggs residence was located at 210 West Fifth Street (now West University Drive), on the northeast corner of West Univer...

The building at 303 S. Main is one of the younger kids on the block. It was built in the spring of 1959 to house the Doris Hayes dress shop...

The first twentieth-century addition to the original plat of the village of Rochester was known as the Albertson Addition, the plat of which...

The building at 418 S. Main is the oldest structure standing on the east side of Main in the block between Fourth Street and University Driv...

Walnut Street is still with us, of course, but the boulevard islands that once defined the roadway vanished more than half a century ago. W...

During the month of August, it is appropriate to reflect on the Rochester community's newspaper heritage. Rochester has been fortunate t...

The building at 133 S. Main was built in 1929 as an automotive dealership. Ralph B. Garner purchased the Chevrolet dealership in Rochester ...

This post inaugurates a new occasional series for Remembering Rochester, entitled "Subdivision Stories." Each post in this series...

The building at 223-227 S. Main can trace its roots back to a livery stable opened by Clayton C. Barnes about 1900, on the lot just south of...

The northwest corner of Main and University (formerly Fifth Street) has been the site of a gasoline service station for nearly forty years n...

A few months ago, when the state began preliminary planning for a proposed reconstruction of Main Street, Rochester, local historians alerte...

This month, we look back thirty-eight years at the Grand Trunk derailment accident of July 9, 1971. At that time, Grand Trunk Western's ...

When I was a little kid, Fourth of July was all about fireworks and sparklers. In those days, there was a local fireworks display that was ...

The Rochester Era was the community's first successful newspaper, established in April 1873, just a year after the first railroad line ...

I grew up in a neighborhood bordering what is now the Rochester Municipal Park, known in those days as Avon Park. The park was both our pla...

The building at 311 S. Main currently houses a custom jewelry store, but for the first four decades of its history it was the location of a ...

Have you ever wondered how the "heart of the hills" motto came to be? If you've been around Rochester for more than a decade,...

Yesterday's painting bee at the Rochester Elevator was a wonderful community event. More than 100 people turned out to pick up a brush a...

Saturday, June 29, 1940 was a red-letter day in Rochester - literally. It was on that day that the D & C Store, a fixture on Main Street...

On the 18 th of this month, we mark the 63 rd anniversary of the day that Rochester's downtown landscape changed forever. On June 18,...