89 East Avenue

The building was designed by New York City architecture firm of McKim, Mead & Whitein partnership with the Rochester based firm of Gordon & Kaelberin 1926. The 10-story façade is finished with limestone and marble in a neo-classical style with brick on the building’s non-dominant facades.

89 East Ave is located approximately a half mile from Interstate 490, in the East End District and adjacent to the Eastman School of Music. The property is a destination on the Landmark Society of Western New York’s Landmark Walking Tour of Rochester, and sits at the epicenter of one of the world’s leading jazz festivals, the annual Rochester International Jazz Festival

The property is zoned in the Center City Tower District (CCD-T). The CCD District allows for uses except those noted as “limited” (homeless residential facilities, personal wireless communication facilities, residential care facilities, rooming houses, and surface parking lots) and “prohibited” (homeless shelter, sexually oriented businesses, uses not fully enclosed buildings-with exceptions, waste centers and pawnbrokers.)

Roof improvements have been made over the years with the most recent repairs made in 2018. The entire 8th floor roof was replaced in 1985. Building was built with a structural steel frame and concrete slab floors. The column grid is approximately 33’-0+ in the East-West direction and varies between approximately 22’-0” and 25’-6” in the North-South direction. According to original plans, the steel frame was fireproofed.

Floors 1-10 are served by four elevators located in the northwest corner of the building. Only elevator 1 has the ability to go to floor 11. Elevator 1 has 4,000 lb capacity and elevators 2, 3, and 4 are 2,500 lb capacity. An additional freight elevator serving up to the 7th floor.