The Rochester area offers a wealth of opportunities for urban exploration.
Abandoned Structures |
Rochester has its fair share of fun abandoned buildings and public works. Most famous is the several miles of intact underground tunnel which is the Abandoned Subway. On Elmwood Avenue there is a partially Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital, the largest building being ten stories tall. Soon to be demolished, the Iola Campus on Westfall Road & East Henrietta Road features several overgrown buildings with plenty to offer explorers.
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690 St Paul St. (3/4 abandoned)
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Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital
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Abandoned Church in Mt. Hope Cemetery
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Beebe Station (RG&E)
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Abandoned Eastman Dental Dispensary
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Monroe County Iola Campus (across the street from the Monroe Community Hospital)
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Abandoned Penfield Rinky Dink mini golf course
External Links
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The Monroe County Page of the National Register of Historical Places is an excellent reference tool for finding abandoned buildings and discovering their legal owners. -
IndustrialNewYork.com Urban Exploration Location listings This site is incredible, many listings of little known locations in the Rochester area. The group responsible is also locally based.
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ForsakenPlaces.com Cool site with lots of photos of Rochester-area abandoned places.
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Graffiti |
| Throughout most of the city there is very little graffiti to be seen; storefronts and most other structures are kept surprisingly clean. However, for what Rochester may lack throughout the city, it more than compensates for in a few areas of high concentration. Among these are the Legal Wall, the Broad Street Bridge portion of the abandoned subway, and The Water Towers. |
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The Water Towers behind Cobbs Hill Park.
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Legal Wall behind Village Gate
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Broad Street Bridge portion of the Abandoned Subway
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2007-01-24 19:54:09 Why is Monroe Community Hospital listed here? I work there on Wednesdays...it's definitely not abandoned... Is there an abandoned structure somewhere that used to be part of the hospital? —RachelBlumenthal
2007-01-24 20:04:40 I originally added 'Community Hospital' reffering to the structure occupying western half of this map. It was later changed to 'Monroe Community Hospital'. That it was a hospital at all might be inaccurate altogether, but I believe it may have been the Rochester Community Hospital in its past incarnation (possibly later becoming what survives today across the way as the Monroe Community Hospital). Someone please fact check this. —RobertPolyn
2007-01-28 14:57:35 Robert, the building on the map is indeed the Monroe Community Hospital. It's primarily an extended care facility and does not admit emergency patients. It started as the County Almshouse so it may have a different name on older maps. It's definitely not abandoned at the moment. —TomMaszerowski
2007-01-28 15:09:28 An Urban Exploration Club is forming at the University of Rochester. They don't appear to have a website up yet, but I'll keep watching for one and add a link once it exists. —RachelBlumenthal
2007-03-19 17:18:15 UR's Urban Exploration club website can be found at http://www.sa.rochester.edu/urbex/ —RachelBlumenthal
2007-11-20 15:45:42 Does anyone know anything about the building on Chili Ave right across from the KFC? I guess it was used to make parts during a war. Why isn't that building on here? —MikeCastellano
