Four stories of trapezoidal stone face you: the Old Stone Warehouse, which began life in 1822. Built by Myron Holley and set right on the Genesee River, its original mass is complemented by a striking six-story addition hewn of Medina sandstone. The stone face you see speaks of early industry: through the 19th century this place housed a foundry, held goods as a storage warehouse, produced tile pottery, and even sheltered a brewery.
Imagine carts and riverboats moving materials, and the steady presence of craftsmen and laborers shaping those walls. In 1973 the building's long history was recognized when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a formal nod to its architecture and to the many lives it touched. Stand close and feel the scale—its trapezoidal footprint, the change in stories where old and added masonry meet, the texture of the Medina sandstone.
This building reads like a ledger of Rochester's working past, its heavy stonework rising to the added stories beside the Genesee River that gave it purpose for you.