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US Post Office-East Rochester

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Pierson Memorial Post Office Building is a historic post office building located at East Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was designed and built 1936-1937, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office (East Rochester, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--East Rochester - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 206 W. Commercial St., East Rochester, 14445
  • When was it listed? November 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
  • Town. East Rochester town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002495 - 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

647 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 647 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-East Rochester between 2000 and 2020, burning about 371 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 70 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/undetermined322
Smoking98
Arson/incendiarism70
Natural59
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-East Rochester: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Penfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mendon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mendon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pittsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pittsford PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Redman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Redman PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013FloodEast Rochester$10,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Rochester$2,000Power pole broken and lines down on Glazer Dr.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Rochester$1,000A tree was reported down onto power lines on the 900 block of South Washington.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Rochester$500Very large tree downed on Crestline Dr.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Rochester$500Large tree down blocking the eastbound lanes of NY Route 441.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Rochester$500A large tree was reported down in East Rochester via Twitter.
October 2021FloodEast Rochester-Flooding was reported in the low lying areas along the Irondequoit Creek between Ellison Park and Powder Mills Park.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Samuel Rich House1.0 miles1987
Penfield Road Historic District1.6 miles2005
Hildreth-Lord-Hawley Farm1.9 miles1996
James H. and Sarah Johnson House1.9 miles2022
Horace and Grace Bush House2.1 miles1994
Phoenix Building2.1 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002495 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 233 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.