Governor Hochul has nominated four sites in Monroe County and Rochester to both the State and National Register of Historic Places.
The list starts with the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company building on the Genesee River in downtown Rochester, once the second-largest publisher of law books in the United States before closing in 2018. The site is now part of a historic renovation.
The Gregory Track Historic District in southeast Rochester is next on the list. It dates to the late 1840s and represents historic Rochester middle-and-working-class housing. Today we know it better as Highland Park.
The J. Hungerford Smith Company Factory is a 19th Century industrial building in Rochester, once a furniture factory, then a plant that made fruit syrups for soft drinks and soda fountains. Today it houses various commercial businesses and residential apartments.
Finally comes the Leander McCord Houses Historic District in the Maplewood Neighborhood, a group of five Tudor Revival-style homes al designed by city architect Leander McCord and built in the mid-1920s. They retain their original architectural features.