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RCS purchases $7 million office and warehouse facility
‘Any and all options could be considered’ for historic admin building
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ROCHESTER Rochester Community Schools will soon vacate its historic administration building at 501. W. University Drive in downtown Rochester.
RCS Superintendent Robert Shaner said the current 90,000-square-foot building is in disrepair.
“It doesn’t take one much to walk around this building and see the condition that it’s in,” Shaner said.
A rich history
The current RCS administration building consists of three individual schools that were connected over the years to form one complex. Rochester-Avon Historical Society President Tiffany Dziurman said there has been a school building on the site since 1847, when a private academy was first built on the property. It was converted to a public school in 1857, burned down in a reported arson fire in 1888 and was eventually replaced with a new school i