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ROCHESTER Rochester Community Schools is currently accepting proposals for its historical administration building at 501 W. University Drive in downtown Rochester.
ROCHESTER Rochester Community Schools is currently accepting proposals for its historical administration building at 501 W. University Drive in downtown Rochester.
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RCS purchases $7 million office and warehouse facility
‘Any and all options could be considered’ for historic admin building
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ROCHESTER Rochester Community Schools will soon vacate its historic administration building at 501. W. University Drive in downtown Rochester.
RCS Superintendent Robert Shaner said the current 90,000-square-foot building is in disrepair.
“It doesn’t take one much to walk around this building and see the condition that it’s in,” Shaner said.
A rich history
The current RCS administration building consists of three individual schools that were connected over the years to form one complex. Rochester-Avon Historical Society President Tiffany Dziurman said there has been a school building on the site since 1847, when a private academy was first built on the property. It was converted to a public school in 1857, burned down in a reported arson fire in 1888 and was eventually replaced with a new school i