Remembering Rochester

Today the Memory's Eye camera points at 543 North Main Street, long the location of the Dillman & Upton lumber yard. The Dillman ...

The building at 621-623 North Main Street was built just before the U.S. entered World War II as the new home of Wallace Cleaners. Propriet...

For about a century, Rochester had a fine livery stable on West Fifth Street (now University Drive), just west of Main Street. The brick liv...

My father, who attended Rochester High School in the 1950s, tells me that during his school days there was a wooden fence along the Wilcox s...

Fifty years ago, in April 1961, citizens of Rochester were approving plans for a second junior high school facility in the Rochester Communi...

The Oakland View subdivision was laid out at the southeast corner of Rochester and Avon Roads in March, 1920. The developer was Detroit...

If you're like me, and you've lived in the community long enough to have observed many changes to the local landscape, there is some...

The handsome residence at 428 East Street, on the east side near the corner of University, was built in the summer of 1884 for Marcus Eugene...

Nowels Lumber Yard was located at 412 Water Street, just south of the Rochester Elevator. Owner and operator Russell W. Nowels first came to...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Rochester's B.P.O.E. Lodge No. 2225, popularly known as the Rochester Elks. A ...

Once upon a time, there was a young man from the Rochester-Pontiac area named Ora Archie Foster. When he was 21 years old, he left his work ...

Lying east of Rochester Road and south of Tienken, the North Hill Gardens subdivision was opened in 1941 in part to answer the community...

Most of us who live in Rochester admire the stately Chapman House as we travel down Walnut Street, and the Chapman name is visible elsewhere...

Here are the answers to the "What Do They Have in Common?" quiz: 1. Keith Crissman, Larry Jerome, Dick Davis? - automobile dealers...

Here's another little quiz for those of you who remember Rochester of the 1950s and 1960s. For each numbered item, decide what all the ...

Fifty years ago this month, in February of 1961, Rochester residents were saying goodbye to a familiar business on Main Street. Verne Sutto...

The building at 419-423 S. Main Street was completed in late 1926 by local businessman Camille J. DeBaene on a lot that for half a century ...

There are several places in Rochester named in honor of pioneer farmer and businessman Lysander Woodward, and one of them is the Woodward H...

The home on the southwest corner of Walnut and Fourth streets was built in the summer of 1895 by George M. Flumerfelt (sometimes also spelle...

St. Andrew Roman Catholic Church is one of Rochester's largest congregations today, and has most certainly not "vanished," but...