Reynolds Arcade

For the original building of this name, see Reynolds Arcade (1829–1932).

Reynolds Arcade
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	16 E. Main St., Rochester, New York
Coordinates	43°9′21″N77°36′44″W / 43.15583°N 77.61222°W / 43.15583; -77.61222
Area	less than one acre
Built	1933
Architect	Gordon & Kaelber
Architectural style	Art Deco
MPS	Inner Loop MRA
NRHP reference No.	85002855 [1]
Added to NRHP	October 4, 1985

Entrance detail

Reynolds Arcade is an office building located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York.

Overview

It is an eleven-story, Art Deco style commercial / office building with arcaded shops on the first floor. It was built in 1933 ^[2] of steel frame construction and is faced on the exterior with Indiana limestone. The central portion of the building is a five bay, eleven story "tower" which steps back from the fifth floor. ^[3]

It replaced a building with the same name that was constructed in 1829. The most ambitious structure in Rochester at that time, it was, according to Joseph W. Barnes, a Rochester City Historian, "the center of Rochester downtown life for more than a century." ^[4]

Recognition

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Barnes, Joseph W.; Barnes, Robert W. (October 1974). "From Books to Multimedia: A History of the Reynolds Library and the Reynolds Audio-Visual Department of the Rochester Public Library" (PDF). Rochester History. XXXVI (4). Monroe County Library System: 21–22.
3. Ted Bartlett (August 1985). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York MPS Reynolds Arcade. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 7, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
4. Barnes and Barnes (1974), p. 3