Brighton Bicentennial 2014

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Town of BrightonBICENTENNIAL

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The photographs in this keepsake booklet come from a variety of sources, many from the archives of the Town of Brighton. Through the years, residents and visitors have contributed to the towns collection of photos and ephemera so the towns bicentennial year is a good time to share the images in the form of a keepsake book.When Brighton became a town in 1814, it was far larger than it is today. Brightons original boundaries were the Genesee River on the west, Lake Ontario on the north, and the towns of Penfield and Pittsford on the east and south. Beginning in 1823 with the annexation of 257 acres on the east side of the river, the village, and later, city of Rochester annexed territory in Brighton until today Brighton is seventy-five per cent smaller than it was in 1814, going from 29,000 acres and forty-five square miles to sixty-five hundred acres and ten square miles in 2014.The towns photo collection reflects these territorial losses with labels that say ...formerly in the Town of Brighton. For example, Oliver Culver was Brightons first town supervisor. The Federal style house he built in 1816 at the corner of East Avenue and Culver Road in Brighton is now located on East Boulevard in the city of Rochester. To quote a local official, Were bigger than our boundaries!Some places have always been in Brighton and are likely to remain. The Twelve Corners, formed by the convergence of three old roadways, Elmwood Avenue, Monroe Avenue, and Winton Road, is the commercial center of town. The approaches to Corbetts Glen on Allens Creek have been altered due to road construction, but the spectacular natural beauty of the place remains the way it was in 1814.The photographs in this keepsake booklet depict our town from the late nineteenth century to the recent past, the Brighton that was and the Brighton that is.

Bicentennial Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Neighbors & Neighborhoods . . . 7

Brighton Village & Cemetery . . . . 9

The Twelve Corners . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Brighton Parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Landmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Oliver Culver, Brightons first town supervisor, came from Orwell, Vermont as a young man. He took office on April 5, 1814, at a meeting at Stones Tavern on East Avenue, now the Stone-Tolan House. Alice Ray Culver at left, was Olivers wife. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

On the cover...Caley & Nash manufactured horse-drawn vehicles at their shop at the corner of East Avenue and Winton Road. in the early 20th century they retooled to make automobile chassis. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Camp Hideaway bus. Howard and Elaine Meath purchased Corbetts Glen from the Corbett heirs and operated a day camp in the Glen. JEFF ViNCENT PHOTO.

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PUBLISHER Richard Procida

CONTENT Mary Jo Lanphear

Brighton Town Historian

EDITOR Allison Cooper

LAYOUT and DESIGN Darlyn Reddy

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Beth Kesel

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JANUARYTown Proclamation to be issued by the Brighton Town Board during the first meeting of the year at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, January 8. The proclamation will designate 2014 as the bicentennial of the town.FEBRUARYin recognition of Black History Month, Brighton will celebrate with a Black Heritage in Brighton event taking place Sunday, February 23 that will commemorate the towns role as a stop on the Underground Railroad.APRILA re-enactment of the first Town Board meeting will take place at the actual location where history was made in 1814. Historic Brighton, one of the towns Bicentennial partners, will present this historic re-enactment on Saturday, April 5, at the Stone-Tolan House, 2370 East Avenue, which 200 years ago was known as Stones Tavern. Re-enactments will repeat every 30 minutes from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. A Plowmans Lunch and tours of the historic house and grounds will also be offered.MAYThe Brighton Historic Landmark Tour on Sunday, May 4 will be a bus tour that will drive participants by

many of Brightons historic structures and other sites relevant to town history. The tours will be narrated by Brighton Town Historian Mary Jo Lanphear, and Arlene Wright Vanderlinde and Christopher Brandt of Historic Brighton.A Memorial Day event will take place on Monday, May 26 at the Veterans Memorial in Buckland Park. During the bicentennial year, this event will have special meaning as the Brighton community looks back 200 years with honor and gratitude for all Brighton residents who have served in our nations wars.JUNEThe Bicentennial Community Picnic on Sunday, June 1, will be held in Buckland Park. Brighton Neighbors United, one of the towns Bicentennial partners, will combine Brightons individual annual neighborhood picnics to produce the largest picnic in the towns history. There will be food, games and entertainment in this signature Brighton park.JULYThe annual Fourth of July Celebration held in Meridian Centre Park will take on a bicentennial theme. There will be a 5K race, amusement rides, food and entertainment. The day will be capped off by a fireworks celebration at dark.

AUgUStCanal Day Celebration will recognize Brightons rich history as a stop and lock on the Erie Canal. On Sunday, August 10, crowds will gather at Lock 33, located off Edgewood Avenue, to enjoy boat rides, a demonstration of the canal lock and other canal-themed activities.SEPtEMBERBrighton Village Day featuring the old Brighton Cemetery. The Saturday, September 13 event will include cemetery tours, a stone raising event and a luncheon at the Brighton Restaurant. SEPtEMBER | OCtOBERBrighton Homecoming 2014 will be presented by the Brighton Central School District with the town of Brighton and the Brighton Chamber of Commerce as partners. A parade, food vendors and live entertainment, centered around the Twelve Corners Memorial Park will be featured.OCtOBERThe Bicentennial Reception will be one of the highlights of the yearlong celebration that will include delectable food and beverages.Note: Many of the regularly scheduled yearly town events will take on a Bicentennial theme.

town of Brightons Bicentennial Yearlong CelebrationSpecial events will recognize the towns growth and rich history, including the Underground Railroad, Erie Canal, architecture and culture.

The Town of Brighton held its first town board meeting on April 5, 1814, in Stones Tavern, which is still standing today as the landmark Stone-Tolan House on East Avenue (the oldest house in Monroe County). in April, the town will re-enact that historic gathering,

which took place when the town had 2,860 residents. Today Brighton has a population close to 37,000.Other special events planned for the 2014 Bicentennial include recognition of African-American history in February, an historic driving tour in May, Bicentennial Community Picnic in June at Buckland Park, Fourth of July Celebration,

Canal Day Celebration in August at Lock 33 and wrapping up the year with a Bicentennial Reception.

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NEiGHBORS & NEiGHBORHOODS.Home Acres, begun in 1912, is Brightons first neighborhood and the Reserve, now taking form on the canal, is perhaps the most recent. Many neighborhoods have active associations that publish newsletters (the Meadowbrook Dandelion has been published since May 1933), hold picnics and parades, and have neighborhood watch programs. Others dont meet unless it is necessary to address a problem or to arrange for a town amenity such as a refuse district.Home Acres met to address the problem of deteriorating posts and lamps at the entrances to the neighborhood. With help from the town, some outside funding, and support from residents, the lamp posts and stone pillars were restored to their 1912 appearance.Neighbors in east Brighton helped negotiate a design for Penfield Road that was acceptable to the Monroe County Department of Transportation as well as the residents along Penfield Road and its satellite streets. A few years later, Elmwood Avenue neighbors followed suit. When the Travelers Motel became a nuisance in 1994, Brighton neighbors picketed the Monroe Avenue establishment. The Brighton Police Department set up a substation at the motel until it closed and was replaced by the CVS Pharmacy.

When houses in central Brighton began exploding on September 21, 1951, the first responders were neighbors. Between 1:15 and 4:00 p.m., three of Brightons neighborhoods, Bel-Air, Meadowbrook, and Roselawn, were the sites of a series of disastrous explosions and fires. Three people died, thirty were injured, nineteen houses destroyed, and twenty-five houses damaged seriously. The sudden, devastating destruction took place on the first day of fall, an unusually warm and sunny day. According to reports, most of the explosions and fires happened during the first hour and a half. By 4:00 p.m., the worst was over and fires were under control. Brighton has also been home to some nationally famous people. Joseph C. Wilson, Xerox founder, lived with his family on Clover Street. Marion B. Folsom, second Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare lived on Oak Lane. Sol Linowitz, Xerox chairman and ambassador to the Organization of American States for the Johnson administration, lived on East Avenue. U.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating lived on Clover Street as a young man and later on Elmwood Avenue. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling , lived in Brighton when she wrote for the Rochester Journal before moving to Florida.

ALL PHOTOGraPHS FROM THE BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN COLLECTiON.

LEFT: Aderica Edmunds, wife of James Edmunds who farmed on Westfall Road and Clinton Avenue, in 1913. CENTER: The Evans Farm neighborhood celebrating Memorial Day in 1984 with a parade at Brookside School. RiGHT: Howard Hanson, longtime resident of Oakdale Drive in Brighton, was chosen to head the Eastman School of Music in 1924, a post he held until his death in 1981.

Home Acres neighbors receiving award for beautifying Brighton. From left: Anne Gitlin, Judy Schwartz, Kathy Foster, Mary Ellen Schultz, and Rose Feltes.

Ellen Tolan, owner of the Stone-Tolan house on East Avenue, with her electric car.

A man watches helplessly as a home on Sylvan Road burns in the aftermath of the Brighton explosions on September 21, 1951.


World War ii Scrap drive in 1942. Left to right: Town Supervisor Charles O. Green, Emmett Sheehan who donated the truck, John Shirley, Jack Oblein, George Klem, and Charles Walker.

in the 1920s isabella Dorsey operated the Dorsey Home for Colored Children in Brighton on a twenty-five acre farm on the southeast corner of Elmwood and Clinton Avenues.

PHOTOGraPH FROM THE ALBERT STONE NEGATiVE COLLECTiON,

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Musicians Frank Mulhbeyer, the boat owner, Jesse Copson, and Tom Monks moored at the canal stop in Brighton village.

Mr. Barnes and his Model T on Linden Avenue. Trolley stop #6 can be seen in the background.

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Arlene Wright leads school children in the Landmark Societys Built Environment program in the former Brighton Village in 1986.

Celestia A. Bloss presents a medal to pupil Frances McVean at the Clover Street Seminary.


BRiGHTON ViLLAGE & CEMETERy.The first village of Brighton was a short-lived community on the east bank of the Genesee River. It was the home of Enos Stone, who after several visits to the frontier to visit his brother, Orringh, decided to take up residence on the east bank of the Genesee River circa 1808. He cleared the land for farming and built a log cabin. By 1814, when the town of Brighton was established, a small community of log houses, mills (saw, grist, and fulling), and taverns existed on the east side of the river the first village of Brighton. An early school was located in Enos Stones barn. The first annexation of land in Brighton in 1823 ended the first village of Brighton. The second village of Brighton was closer to Orringh Stones house and located on a road built in 1805 from Stones Tavern to the Genesee River.The completion of a section of the Erie Canal through Brighton in 1822 also affected the development of the new Brighton village and brought prosperity to the small community. Later the village would be the site of both passenger

and freight train stations. The canal brought travelers and land speculators to the new settlement but it also brought canawlers, those gentlemen of the waterway whose presence increased the livelihood of not only the blacksmiths, coopers, and tanners but also tavern keepers. Abolitionist William Clough Bloss had a tavern on the southeast corner of the intersection of what is now East Avenue and Winton Road. In 1905 the second village of Brighton was annexed by the city of Rochester.The Brighton Congregational Church which became the Brighton Presbyterian Church in 1870 was founded in 1817 and purchased land overlooking the canal for a church and cemetery. That first church burned to the ground in 1867. Its replacement was built on the south side of East Avenue. The cemetery remains on the hill overlooking the canals successor, Interstate 490. Many of Brightons forefathers and mothers are buried there.

Brighton Cemetery in 2014. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Looking south from East Avenue over the South Avenue (Winton Road South) bridge over the Erie Canal. BRiGHTON HiSTORiCAL SOCiETy PHOTO.

Streetcars ran on East Avenue. This one is near Probert Street in the village of Brighton.

The back of the Brighton Presbyterian Church reflected in the Erie Canal that ran behind it. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Orringh Stones headstone in Brighton Cemetery.


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LEFT: William Clough Bloss Tavern on the southeast corner of East Avenue and Winton Road. The building was torn down for a gasoline station in 1936. ROCHESTER HiSTORiCAL SOCiETy XiV PAGE 120.

RiGHT: The Womens Christian Temperance Union of Brighton built a hall in 1894 and rented space to the Brighton village trustees to use for offices and meetings. in the mid-twentieth century it was home to LaMays Drugstore and Gar Lowenguth Realty. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Norris house on west side of Winton Road South. Exit ramp from i-490 crosses the site today. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Looking east on East Avenue circa 1900 from the Brighton Presbyterian Church. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

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THE TWELVE CORNERS.Formed by three old thoroughfares, Brightons unique street configuration became the commercial center of the town after the annexation of Brighton Village in 1905. Monroe Avenue has had many names, e.g., the State Road to Canandaigua, the Rochester to Pittsford Plank Road, Monroe Street, and Route 31. Winton Road that forms the skewed southwest to northeast line through the Twelve Corners was South Avenue until the annexation of the Village after which it received the name Winton after the popular automobile of the time. Elmwood Avenue is the west-east street laid out along the lot line surveyed by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham in 1790. During the brick-making era, the Twelve Corners was the site of taverns, blacksmith shops, and other businesses. When the brickmakers moved away and

housing developments began on the satellite streets, businesses that catered to a residential clientele came to the area. The Brighton Town Hall rented space at 1795 Monroe Avenue from 1928 to 1953. Wegmans was one of the first tenants in the new Twelve Corners Plaza in 1941. Howard Johnsons restaurant was a mainstay on Winton Road as was the Chateau across the street. Owner Daniel Sheehans family home was across Monroe Avenue from the hotel. Behind the house was an athletic field where Jim Thorpe and Red Grange once played. In the center of the triangle formed by the three streets there was a blacksmith shop in 1900. Later in the twentieth century, the land became a park and in 1943, the town erected a three-sided commemorative sign honoring the service men and women of World War II.

A wreath-laying ceremony circa 1950. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Twelve Corners Plaza in 1987, designed by architect C. Storrs Barrows and built by contractor Emil Muller. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Aerial view of the Twelve Corners just before the Plaza was constructed in 1941. Henry Pecks orchard has been cleared away but the new building is not yet visible. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Albert Lipman in 1994 at Lipmans Kosher Market west of the Twelve Corners that he started in 1951. The building is a designated town landmark. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Brighton Fire Hall #2 on Elmwood Avenue. Architect Leon Stern designed three Tudor-style fire halls for Brighton to complement its domestic architecture. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Begun by Lee irwin and Elmer DeHollander in 1932, Elmers Garage on Monroe Avenue has been providing car services for over eighty years. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

1832 Monroe Avenue was Edward Caples tavern. Built of brick in the late 1840s, it was the site of town board meetings and other civic groups. One of the Bricks of Brighton, it is a designated Brighton landmark. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Raymond Tierney ii, who operated Tierneys Super Duper grocery store on Monroe Avenue, rebuilt the business after a disastrous fire in 1974. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.


The Twelve Corners circa 1950. Left side of photograph. HERB AND TERRy ROSS PHOTO.

Learys Hotel in 1908 stood on the corner formed by Elmwood and Monroe Avenues. in the photograph are Corey Phillips, unidentified, Andrew Creidt and John Cuddeback, both of Pittsford. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Titled Twelve Corners by the Shop, this photo of men and horses and trees illustrates the center of the triangle circa 1900. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.


The Twelve Corners circa 1950. Right side of photograph. HERB AND TERRy ROSS PHOTO.

The Chateau stood at the northwest corner of Monroe and Winton. Owned first by Daniel Sheehan, in 1925 Albert Michaels bought the hotel and renamed it The Chateau. For fifty-seven years it served as a restaurant and nightclub, attracting entertainers such as Kate Smith, Milton Berle, Joe Penner, Bill Robinson, Texas Guinan, Olson & Johnson, Ted Lewis, and cowboy star Buck Jones. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Maleks Bakery at 1795 Monroe Avenue occupies the former Brighton Town Hall space. it is a designated town landmark. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Architect C. Storrs Barrows who designed the Brighton Town Hall, Twelve Corners Plaza, many fine houses, and several neighborhoods in Brighton.


The Brighton Police Department in 1961.BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

The indian Landing School baseball team with coach Scully on left in 1952. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

ABOVE: The Brighton Police Department in 1961. BELOW: The indian Landing School baseball team with coach Scully on left in 1952. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTOS.

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Tunnel and bridge under the railroad tracks at Corbetts Glen. JEFF ViNCENT PHOTO. Pergola at the Twelve Corners Park in 2010. SANDra FraNKEL PHOTO.

Sledding in Ellison Park. SANDra FraNKEL PHOTO.


BRiGHTON PARKS.Brighton maintains 350 acres of parkland within town boundaries. The oldest is Twelve Corners Park in the triangle formed by Monroe Avenue, Elmwood Avenue, and Winton Road South. Brighton Town Park is on Westfall Road. Adjacent to Edmunds Woods, it also has Carmen Clark lodge.Meridian Center Park off Winton Road South is the home of the towns annual Fourth of July festivities and offers a playground and ball fields. The twenty-four acre park provides easy access to the Erie/Barge Canal. Corbetts Glen Park is located in east Brighton on fifty-two acres of land that extend from Penfield Road on the north to Corbetts Glen on the south. Access to the park is from a small parking lot on Penfield Road or on-street parking on Glen Road. Named for the Corbett family that operated a large farm and later a picnic grove along Allens Creek, the parkland was acquired by the Town of

Brighton with assistance from the Genesee Land Trust. It was dedicated a park in 1997.Buckland Park is named for Amos B. Buckland of the family of brick makers who came to Brighton in the early nineteenth century. Formerly the Max Gonsenhauser cattle farm, the land includes the brick Buckland house, a Brighton town landmark. Dedicated in 2007, the house was rehabilitated for use a history center with funds from the Brighton Rotary, the town of Brighton, and New York State. Partly in Brighton and partly in Penfield is Ellison Park. The land for this park was given to Monroe County in 1927 by Frank Ellison in honor of his father, Nathanial B. Ellison, an early settler. Located within the park is the Schuyler Trading Post, a log building built in 1938 to commemorate the year-long visit of Captain Peter Schuyler and his men in 1721.

Walter Hagen, world famous golfer, born in 1892 in Corbetts Glen. JEFF ViNCENT PHOTO.


Rustic bridge over irondequoit Creek in Ellison Park. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

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Supervisor Sandra Frankel and Councilman Jim Vogel at Meridian Center Park in 1997. SANDra FraNKEL PHOTO.

The playground at Buckland Park. SANDra FraNKEL PHOTO.

The postcard falls on Allens Creek at Corbetts Glen. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.


EDUCATiON.The first school in Brighton was probably the one at Tryon, the early commercial village on the Irondequoit Landing in what is now Ellison Park. Oliver Culver, an entrepreneur and the towns first supervisor, was the instigator of that 1802 enterprise a log building, pupils of all ages, and a teacher whose other job was clerking in the Tryon store. The population was mostly male, young and fluid opportunity lay over the horizon so many didnt stay long before moving on to the Midwest. The village of Tryon declined in the years after the War of 1812 and we can assume that the little school closed when there were no children to educate.The first official mention of education appears in the minutes of the first town meeting on April 5, 1814. At that meeting school districts were formed and commissioners of schools appointed. Six school districts were laid out. The town officers announced that next years town meeting would take place at the District

#2 school house this would seem to imply that the building already existed. From those six districts, the educational system in Brighton grew to twenty-four districts in townships 13 and 14 in Range Seven. Annexations and population shifts juggled the districts, their numbers, and the school locations. At almost every annual town meeting from 1823 on, there is mention of an adjustment to the school districts. By the mid-1950s, Brightons schools were burgeoning and the central high school could no longer accept pupils from districts #3 through #7. District #7 was annexed to the Penfield Central School system; District #6 to Pittsford; District #4 to Rush-Henrietta, etc. Today Brightons children are educated in five public school districts as well as private and parochial schools.

Brighton School District #9 closed in 1939 and is now a private home. SAM R. DAWSON PHOTO. Allens Creek School District #6 on East Avenue is now part of the Pittsford School District. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

District #3 was located on Westfall Road near Clinton Avenue on land leased to the district by the Edmunds family with the condition that they would take it back should the school close. This photo was taken in 1937. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Brighton Village School became the Winton Branch Library when it was no longer needed by the city school district after the annexation of Brighton Village in 1905. it served as a library until the construction of the parking garage behind the Central Trust/M&T Bank. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.


School #5 was a one-room brick building located at the corner of Mount Hope Avenue and Crittenden Boulevard. This area was annexed to the city of Rochester in 1922. Note the little boy on the left in the front row making a face at the camera! BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Brighton #1 School at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Clover Street. A frame building built in 1884, it was consolidated with District #8 near Cobbs Hill to form Union Free District #1. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

The Clover Street Seminary was begun by Celestia Angenette Bloss in 1835 to educate both young men and women. it was a boarding and day school with pupils coming from all over the U.S. and Canada. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

School #8 was located on Monroe Avenue across from Cobbs Hill. The brick school house was built in 1842 on land donated by Gideon Cobb and Miles Northrup. in 1943 the Little Red Schoolhouse burned to the ground. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Brighton High School. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Clover Montessori School circa 1975 was located in the Baptist Temple before moving to the St. Thomas More Church campus. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

The #3 schoolhouse was built of brick. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

Children in #1 School in Brighton Village in 1908. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

District #7 became indian Landing School in 1934. it was built of concrete blocks in 1914 after its predecessor burned to the ground in 1910 due to sparks from a nearby train. in 1954 the school was annexed to the Penfield Central School District. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.


DiVERSiTy.Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries population increases brought new residents from different cultures.

Brighton of 2014 reflects that ethnic and religious diversity. These photos represent just a sampling of the worship sites in Brighton.

ABOVE: The Protection of the Mother of God Russian Orthodox Church is on Stanford Drive in east Brighton.

BELOW: Saint Thomas More Church, 1959.

ABOVE: West Brighton Presbyterian Church circa 1919.

RiGHT: Temple Sinai on Penfield Road was designed by architect James Johnson. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO.

BELOW: West Brighton Chapel, 1915.

ABOVE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is on Westfall Road. BRiGHTON HiSTORiAN PHOTO

BELOW: The islamic Center is on Westfall Road next to Brighton Town Park.


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LANDMARKS.In 1995, the town of Brighton passed a historic preservation law to protect the rich architectural heritage of the town. By mid-2014, 58 buildings have been designated town landmarks. Brightons oldest landmark, the 1792 Stone-Tolan house, is also the oldest building in Monroe County. The most recent landmark is the 1957 Alcoa Aluminum ranch-style house, the only one constructed in New York State and one of only twenty-four such houses nationwide.

Brighton was also the site of several brick manufacturing companies, most notably the Rochester Brick & Tile Company on Monroe Avenue and the Buckland Brick Company, also in the Twelve Corners area. As a result, many of Brightons landmark houses are built of Brighton brick and most have been designated officially.

Patrick Corbett purchased this house in the late nineteenth century and operated a successful farm next to Allens Creek. When picnickers became frequent visitors, he added pavilions and other amenities to the site. Corbetts Glen is now a nature park in the town of Brighton.

1795 Monroe Avenue was used by the town of Brighton as its town hall from 1928 until 1953. Today it is the home of Maleks Bakery.

Members of the Joseph Abbey family stand in the front yard of the circa 1820 homestead on Edgewood Avenue, one of the oldest streets in Brighton.

isaac Moore, farmer and brick maker, built this house on Clover Street circa 1840. His heirs sold it to the William Babcock family. A. Emerson Babcock was town supervisor of Brighton for several terms in the early twentieth century and later became town historian.


The Alcoa Care Free Home (1957) was designed by architect Charles Goodman for the Alcoa Aluminum Company as they retooled their factories from airplane manufacturing to the peacetime use of aluminum after World War ii. Not only a town landmark, the house is also on the New york State and National Registers of Historic Places.

The brick Buckland House was constructed sometime between 1820 and 1830 on land once owned by Nathaniel Rochester. Amos B. Buckland owned the property from 1835 to 1865.The Rochester Orphan Asylum bought the property in 1911 to provide vocational experience for the children as well as food for the orphanage on Pinnacle Hill.

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Thomas Warrant built his family home circa 1820 on West Henrietta Road. Thomas and his family were active participants in the Underground Railroad, secreting escaped slaves in the house and moving them on to safety in Canada.

The earlier part of the Stone-Tolan house on East Avenue was built in 1792. The two-story Federal section was added in 1805. Orringh Stone and his family operated a tavern and farm on the site; John Patrick Tolan bought it from the Stone heirs. The Landmark Society of Western New york bought the house and five acres from Ellen Tolan, Johns daughter, in 1956, and maintains it as a historic site.

1990: Residents singing in preparation for the senior music festival.

1940s: Friendly Homes front entrance.

1918: Friendly Homes first year at the current Brighton location on East Avenue.

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Since 1918, Friendly Home has been a part of the Brighton community, offering residents and friends support, camaraderie and a warm welcome home.

From our dedicated staff to fellow residents, each new day starts with friends who care. The difference is in the personal detailscomfortable living spaces, inviting gathering areas and engaging activitiesenhanced by first-rate clinical resources and exceptional care.

Friendly Senior Living Communities Cloverwood | Glenmere | Linden Knoll | Lovejoy | Friendly Home

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Thank you for continuing with us on our journey, as we step out of the past

and into the future.

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Brighton Bicentennial 2014