Irondequoit/Rochester New York 1850-1900

Irondequoit, New York--a suburb of Rochester-- is where George and Margaret Apfel settled upon arriving in America 7 Aug 1847.  The landscape looked much like the photo above during that period, all farmland. Below are the locations The Apfels lived in during the second of the 19th century. In the 1855 state census the land was valued at $400.  The houses in this area were all built between 1850-1920.  As Rochester grew during this very prosperous time the city limits expanded to include the farm on Miller Street where Gottlieb & Barbara lived.

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Here's Miller Street as it looks today.  The present house on Miller Street was built in 1920, two decades after Gottlieb passed. However, on Wright Terrace, which the house on the right faces, there are five homes all built in 1888. The corner house on Miller and Wright was built in 1860. Now that Rochester has it’s property records available online, it is possible to get a date of construction.

Gottlieb passed away in 1891, his widow and surviving children lived in this house long after his death...up until the 1920 federal census this was their address. 

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Pictured on the left  is 65 Sixth St. where Adam & Fredericka lived in 1889.  At this time their family consisted of son Henry and daughter Amelia... Walter  would not be born for another 10 years.  The family moved from this flat to a single family house up the street at 173 sometime between 1890-1900. The structure at 173 still remains.

Below is a photo from 1905 of the Rochester Police Motorized Bike Patrol.  Adam became a member of the Park police in the latter 1890's, he also was a member of the Motorized Bike Patrol.  While he is not pictured below, no doubt the officers in the picture knew him.  

173 Sixth Street in 2004. Property records indicate it was built in 1888 so Adam and Fredericka moved in when it was fairly new.

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