Reynolds Arcade is an

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located in

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Overview

It is an eleven-story,

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style commercial / office building with arcaded shops on the first floor. It was built in 1933 of steel frame construction and is faced on the exterior with Indiana

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. The central portion of the building is a five bay, eleven story "tower" which steps back from the fifth floor. ''See also:'' 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."Barnes and Barnes (1974)
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Recognition

It was listed on the

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in 1985.

References

Skyscraper office buildings in Rochester, New York Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Art Deco skyscrapers Commercial buildings completed in 1932 Art Deco architecture in Rochester, New York National Register of Historic Places in Rochester, New York {{MonroeCountyNY-NRHP-stub