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Franklin Whittlesey was a real estate speculator who built and then lived in this home in the Whittlesey land tract. The address was first Clay Street, then Tremont Street. […]
Read MoreThis brick and stone home, with quoins, stone blocks at the corners, is one of just four Rochester structures built in the style of a late 19th century high Victorian […]
Read MoreThe land records indicate a smaller house on this lot in the 1830s, with an addition by Thomas Thorn in the late 1840s. Patrick Brennan, a tailor, lived here from […]
Read MoreThe neighborhood’s second rejuvenation took place in the 1980s. Many old homes near the river were in such disrepair that they could not be salvaged and demolished. Mark IV […]
Read MoreThe French Second Empire home, built by Charles Hart for his daughter Harriet Hart Wiltsie in 1837. The mansard roof was added in 1876. This style roof was considered very […]
Read MoreThe elegant townhouse replaced a home on the Montgomery Greens/Riley site, a Rochester housing tract. It is one of seven adjoining townhouses built in 1986 by Mark IV Construction. The […]
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