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First RIT Campus - Historical Marker

First RIT Campus, Rochester

FIRST RIT CAMPUS
Rochester Athenaeum est. 1829
Mechanics Institute est. 1885
located here. Merged 1891 &
renamed Rochester Institute
of Technology in 1944.

Located at: 126 Spring St., Rochester
Funded by: William C. Pomeroy Foundation, 2018

Photo dated: Nov. 7, 2021
Photo by: Dick Halsey

Note: Also see a photo of the Bevier Memorial Building that is in the background.  

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