Reynolds Arcade Explained

Reynolds Arcade
Location:16 E. Main St., Rochester, New York
Coordinates:43.1558°N -77.6122°W
Built:1933
Architect:Gordon & Kaelber
Architecture:Art Deco
Added:October 4, 1985
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:85002855

Reynolds Arcade is an office building located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York.

Overview

It is an eleven-story, Art Deco style commercial / office building with arcaded shops on the first floor. It was built in 1933[1] 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.[2]

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."[3]

Recognition

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Notes and References

  1. 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 . Rochester History . Monroe County Library System . XXXVI . 4 . 21–22 .
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Reynolds Arcade. August 1985. 2009-11-01 . Ted Bartlett. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. See also: Web site: Accompanying two photos.
  3. Barnes and Barnes (1974), p. 3