Guided Tours Rochester, New York
Rochester NY Guided Tours
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Heritage Tour
Roc
hester Tour Company
offers
guided tours
every day shine or rain.
The 2-hour tour is
$20,
$15
for seniors
and students.
The 3-hour tour
is $30, $20 for seniors and students.
You can meet
a tour guide
at 11 AM at
80 Woodbury Boulevard,
Washington Square Park
,
opposite Genesee Valley Theater
.
Choose one of the following tours:
Film Making History
Jazz in Rochester
Freedom Trail
Washington Square, opposite GeVa Theater
Meet the tour guide near the above pictured statue.
1 PM
200 East Avenue
Spot Cafe
Millionaires Raw
RochesterTour@hotmail.com
Call (585) 461-8336
between 9PM - 9AM.
Abolitionist and author of
22 Years a Slave, 40 Years a Freeman
Austin Steward owned vast real estate on Main Street. Tour stops at Austin's memorial site.
Journalist Frederick Douglass published his newspaper
North Star
in Rochester.
Tour visits his editorial office.
Women's Rights movement leader Susan B Anthony and Frederick Douglass worked together for their causes. They are depicted in the sculpture
Let's Have a Tea.
Tour stops at Susan B Anthony house.
George Eastman and Thomas Edison patented the film negative. Tour visits Eastman Estate and Museum of Film and Photography.
Hester Jeffrey was active in the Women's rights movement and delivered the eulogy at SB Anthony's funeral.
Powers Hotel on Main and State Street is an example of French architecture, Second Empire style.
Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart they both have roots in Rochester. Humphrey's mother Maud H. Bogart (her home pictured above) lived and worked as a book illustrator in Rochester. Swedish-born Bergman spent two years in Rochester with her husband Dr. Lindstrom while filming
Casablanca.
Kurt Vonnegut based Billy Pilgrim from
Slaughterhouse 5
on the live of Ed Crone from Rochester. Vonnegut and Crone served together in Dresden, Germany during the final year of the WWII - 1945. Crone is buried at the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester.
Erie Canal crosses over Genesee River at Broad Street - 1904.
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