Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“The Rundel Memorial Building is a historic library building located in Rochester, Monroe County, New York. Constructed between 1933 and 1936 as the original downtown site of the Rochester Public Library, it serves as part of the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County along with the Bausch & Lomb Public Library Building across the street.”
Wikipedia article Rundel Memorial Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture, Beaux-Arts
Architect. Gordon & Kaelber
National Register reference number.85002845- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
2,607 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,607 fires within 5 miles of Rundel Memorial Library
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,651 acres in total. 173 started naturally. 294 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1189
Smoking
638
Arson/incendiarism
294
Natural
173
Debris and open burning
108
Equipment and vehicle use
101
Misuse of fire by a minor
51
Power generation/transmission/distribution
30
Recreation and ceremony
18
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Rundel Memorial Library: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 plant.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 28 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 7 hail, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A car was stuck in a sinkhole along St. Paul Boulevard between Paxon Road and Wimbledon Road. There were widespread reports of standing water on roads from Greece to the western portions of Rochester.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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