ATTRACTIONS

Amusements

• Seabreeze Park
  4600 Culver Road • Rochester, NY 14506
  585-323-1900, 800-395-2500
  This family oriented park offers a variety of amusements and a water park, with over seventy five attractions in all. more...  map

Historic Homes & Buildings

• Campbell Whittlesey Museum
  123 South Fizhugh Street • Rochester, NY 14614
  585-546-7029
  This restored 1830s home is known as one of the finest examples of Greek revival architecture in America, and is filled with furnishings that recreate the era of its origin.  more...  map

• Historic City Hall
  30 Church Street • Rochester, NY 14056
  585-428-7000
  This historic building is picturesque and consists of four stories, an open air atrium, marble arches, stone sculptures and ornate council chambers. more...  map

• Susan B. Anthony House
  17 Madison Street • Rochester, NY 14056
  585-235-6124
  This Victorian home was the headquarters for the historic women's suffrage movement and the scene of Susan B. Anthony's infamous arrest in 1872 for voting. The house, now a National Historic Landmark, functions as a museum with exhibits tracing the suffrage movement. It is part of the nine-block Susan B. Anthony Square, which is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places, an intact middle class neighborhood from the Victorian era of the 19th Century. more...  map

• Woodside Mansion
  485 East Avenue • Rochester, NY 14056
  585-271-2705
  Recognized by the Rochester Historical Society, this mansion is noted for its distinguished Greek Revival architecture.  map

Historic Sites & Monuments

• Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse
  70 Lighthouse Street • Rochester, NY 14612
  585-621-6179
  This second-oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes was built in 1822, and sits perched on a looming bluff that overlooks the mouth of the Genesee River. The forty-foot octagonal sandstone tower is accompanied by a two-room lighthouse keeper’s cottage and a well; visitors can tour the surroundings, climb the tower, and visit the museum located on the first floor of the keeper’s cottage that houses displays regarding the lighthouse itself, lighthouse lore, navigation, and the history of the region. more...  map

• Mount Hope Cemetery
  585-461-3494
  One can explore this historic cemetery that includes the final resting places of such historical figures as Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas.

Libraries & Research Centers

• University of Rochester Theatre Poster Collection
  107 Todd Union Building • Rochester, NY 14627
  Rush Rhees Library
  585-275-4477
  Found in the library on the campus of the University of Rochester, this unique collection features one hundred thirty one posters that advertised coming attraction to Rochester theatres as far back as the early 1880s. The historic posters advertise for many productions in the late Nineteenth Century, including vaudeville, melodramas, comedies and dramas.  more...

Museums & Galleries

• ARTISANworks
  565 Blossom Road, Suite L • Rochester, NY 14610
  585-288-7170
  ARTISANworks is a 60,000 square foot facility honoring many forms of art in the upstate New York region. It features many workshops, live music on Sundays, art restoration services, in home art consulting and art appraisals. more...

• Centre at High Falls
  60 Brown's Race • Rochester, NY 14614
  High Falls District
  585-325-2030
  The Centre at High Falls includes an array of exhibits that explore and elucidate a variety of themes and matter of interest, including push button exhibits that will acquaint one with the legends of Rochester, a simulated taxi ride that explores the reaches of the city, a simulated race way, and 3-D exhibits that explore geology, technology, culture, and creativity. There is also an old operational forge on the grounds where one can learn about the process of smelting and metal work. In addition to the spectacular High Falls that plummet over a ninety-five-foot cliff in the Genesee River, the Genesee River Gorge is at night set ablaze with the spectacular artificial flashes and luminescence of a thirty minute laser light show and a fireworks display. All in all, there is much to be found in and around this centre.   map

• George Eastman House (circa 1902-1905)
  900 East Avenue • Rochester, NY 14607
  585-271-3361
  Once the estate of George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, this restored Colonial Revival mansion is situated on 12 and a half acres and is open to the public. Visitors of the International Museum of Photography and Film can see the home, gardens, a state-of-the-art archives building, two theatres, a study center, exhibition galleries, and the Discovery Room. The main purpose of the museum is to tell the story of the history of photography and motion pictures over the last 150 years. more...  map

• Memorial Art Gallery
  500 University Avenue • Rochester, NY 14056
  585-473-7720
  The Memorial Art Gallery features exhibits of artworks, some of which verge on being immemorial, with fifty centuries of art on display; the relics and art displayed span from the mists of antiquity to modern masterpieces. Proud of their well-balanced collections that represent a multitude of styles and periods, the museum is host to traveling world-class exhibitions, as well as its own varied permanent collection of artworks. In addition to the works of the old masters that one can find here, there are works that represent the cutting edge of avant garde art, interactive displays, and contemporary crafts exhibits that illustrate the vitality of the culture and inhabitants of the present day Rochester region. more...  map

• Oxford Gallery
  267 Oxford Street • Rochester, NY 14607
  585-271-5885
  The Oxford Gallery brings the best in contemporary art to the Rochester area, with several thousand works in a collection that includes paintings, prints, sculpture and mixed media works that represent over sixty artists that have established either regional or national acclaim; in addition, the gallery offers a nice selection of both American and European paintings that date from earlier periods. more...  map

• Rochester Museum and Science Center
  657 East Avenue • Rochester, NY 14505
  585-271-4320
  The Rochester Museum and Science Centre features exhibits that are related to history, anthropology and natural sciences. In addition to the multifarious items that can be viewed in the museum’s varied collection, the Strasenburgh Planetarium features shows that point out the awesomeness of the universe, through features that educate one about the stars, black holes, the solar system, and the cosmology of the universe as we know it. more...  map

• Stone Tolan House Museum
  2370 East Avenue • Rochester, NY 14506
  585-546-7029
  The Stone-Tolan House endeavours to recreate the activities and ways of life from the times when this area was the edge of the frontier and bordered on the wild expanses that lay to the west; both the activities that would be found in a typical household of the era, and the life that would have been centred around a rural tavern in Brighton between 1790 and 1820, are replicated and explicated at this museum. more...  map

• Strong National Museum of Play
  One Manhattan Square • Rochester, NY 14607
  585-263-2700
  At the Strong National Museum of Play you will find ongoing exhibits and programs dedicated to the enhancement and history of play. more...

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

• Ellwanger Garden of Landmark Society
  625 Mount Hope • Rochester, NY 14506
  585-546-7029
  This perennial garden dates back to 1876, is located in an historic village, and offers one the chance to visit a Victorian-style English Garden with a quite extensive collection of peonies, as well as a wide range of other flowers and flora. more...  map

• Seneca Park Zoo
  2222 Saint Paul Street • Rochester, NY 14621
  585-336-7200
  The Seneca Park Zoo features educational programs, participates in conservation programs, and displays a wide variety of animals that represent the great biological diversity to be found in such families and categories as fish, invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.  more...  map

• Sonnenberg Gardens
  151 Charlotte Street • Rochester, NY 14424
  585-394-4922
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Tours & Cruises

• Colonial Belle
  400 Packetts Landing • Fairport, NY 14450
  South East Rochester on the Erie Canal at Fairport
  585-223-9470
  The Colonial Belle provides scenic cruises, lunches, dinner & private charters on the historic Erie Canal. It features a capacity of 149 passengers. Their lower deck is enclosed with a full bar and the upper deck is open air for great viewing. more...  map

• Corn Hill Navigation
  12 Corn Hill Terrace • Rochester, NY 14506
  585-262-5661
  Corn Hill Navigation offers daily and special excursions for exploring the area in and around Rochester.  map

• Corn Hill Waterfront and Navigation Foundation
  250 Exchange Boulevard • Rochester, NY 14506
  585-262-5661
  This foundation features a replica of an 1880s canal boat, tour excursions, and brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert cruises.  map

• Force Seven Charters
  PO Box 26593 • Rochester, NY 14506
  585-349-7399
  Force Seven Charters offers daily and specialty charters that depart from Spencerport.

• Sam Patch Tour Boat
  250 Exchange Boulevard • Rochester, NY 14056
  585-262-5661
  Sam Patch offers historic and scenic cruises on the Genesee River and the Erie Canal.   map

Vineyards, Wineries & Breweries

• Casa Larga Vineyards
  2287 Turk Hill Road • Fairport, NY 14450
  585-223-4210
  Casa Larga Vineyards produces award winning wines while also offering wine tastings and tours. Special events are held throughout the year. more...