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Remembering Rochester: September 2014

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Saturday, September 20, 2014. At Home in Rochester: The Albertson House. The Albertson house standing on North Main just before it was moved in 1953. On the south side of Ferndale Street, just west of North Main, stands a lovely house that fits beautifully with its surrounding neighbors. The Woodward Heights subdivision. Of which Ferndale is a part, was platted in 1920, so one could be forgiven for thinking that all of the houses on the street date from that time or later. Estimate was at all accurate, t...

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Remembering Rochester: February 2015

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Saturday, February 7, 2015. Movers and Shakers: The Journey of John Fairchild Hamlin. Hamlin Road, Hamlin School, Hamlin Pub - the Hamlin name has high visibility in the greater Rochester area more than 150 years after the death of John Fairchild Hamlin, a pioneer settler of the Township of Avon. So who was John F. Hamlin, and why do we remember him today? Was a successful industrialist and breeder of trotting horses whose home is a landmark. Manufacturers of fine musical instruments. Died in 1863 at the...

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Remembering Rochester: July 2015

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015. This Month in Rochester History. An important community institution was born fifty years ago this month. On July 11, 1965, a group of 400 people assembled on some pasture land recently owned by Howard L. McGregor, Jr. The property was just west of St. John Lutheran School, and the crowd watched as Ormond S. Wessels pushed a shovel into the ground to mark the beginning of construction for Crittenton Hospital. Posted by Remembering Rochester. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Oakland Reg...

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Remembering Rochester: This Month in Rochester History

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015. This Month in Rochester History. Fifty years ago this month, Rochester area residents were thinking about traffic. Specifically, they were concerned about the intersection of Rochester and Avon roads, which only had a blinker as a traffic control device - not a stop-and-go signal. Leader Dogs for the Blind, located on a corner at that intersection, expressed concern for pedestrian safety and asked for a regular traffic light to be installed. Posted by Remembering Rochester.

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Remembering Rochester: This Month in Rochester History

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Monday, June 1, 2015. This Month in Rochester History. Fifty years ago this month, Rochester residents learned that they would soon be saying goodbye to a treasured local business that had been a Main Street fixture for 65 years. The owners of Burr's Hardware announced that they were selling out and retiring, ending their long run as hardware merchants that had started in 1899. In that year, a young Macomb County entrepreneur named George Burr. Posted by Remembering Rochester. View my complete profile.

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Remembering Rochester: June 2015

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Monday, June 15, 2015. Parallel Lives: The Hamlins and the Woodwards - Now Online. If you missed the Rochester Avon Historical Society's February program on the lives of the Hamlin and Woodward families, here's some good news! The program, entitled Parallel Lives: the Hamlins and the Woodwards. Is now available online in its entirety on the RAHS Youtube channel. If you're interested in the stories of two of Rochester's prominent pioneer families, take a look at this program. Monday, June 1, 2015. Paralle...

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Remembering Rochester: March 2015

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Saturday, March 28, 2015. At Home in Rochester: Samuel Baldrie Jackson House. This house on the north side of Seventh Street, east of Wilcox, was built in the fall of 1891 and is celebrating its 124th birthday in 2015. Local carpenter and contractor Abram F. Burd. Built the house as a residence for his daughter, Maretta, and her husband, Samuel Baldrie Jackson. Who had been married two years before, in 1889. Jackson house as depicted in the 1897 publication Beautiful Rochester. Samuel Jackson was associa...

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Remembering Rochester: This Month in Rochester History

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Saturday, August 1, 2015. This Month in Rochester History. Fifty years ago this month, Michigan Christian College (now Rochester College) began a 54-acre expansion of its campus on West Avon Road. In 1957, the North Central Christian College Association had acquired the former Maxon estate on Avon as the location of a new school. North Central Christian College welcomed its first students in 1959, and changed its name to Michigan Christian College in 1961. It became Rochester College in 1997. Is a blog f...