Terrence Building
| Terrence Building | |
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| Alternative names | Terrence Tower |
| General information | |
| Status | Closed |
| Type | Hospital |
| Location | 1111 Elmwood Avenue Rochester, New York |
| Coordinates | 43°7′24.925″N 77°36′23.307″W / 43.12359028°N 77.60647417°WCoordinates: 43°7′24.925″N 77°36′23.307″W / 43.12359028°N 77.60647417°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Construction started | 1955 |
| Completed | 1957 |
| Opening | 1959 |
| Closed | 1995 |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 204 feet (62 m) (estimated) |
| Roof | 160 feet (49 m) |
| Top floor | 160 feet (49 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 16 |
| Lifts/elevators | 6 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Kahn & Jacobs |
| References | |
| [1] | |
The Terrence Building is an abandoned high-rise building and former psychiatric hospital in the Azalea neighborhood on the outskirts of Rochester, New York. Opened in 1959, the 16-story tower was once the home of the Rochester State Hospital, a mental ward that boasted 1,000 beds until it closed in 1995, and patients were moved to newer buildings of the surrounding Rochester Psychiatric Center. The tower, which has sat empty since, continues to loom over the Rochester Psychiatric Center campus to this day, and if torn down, would clear a site comparable in size to the nearby College Town development or Tower 280 at Midtown. Proposals to remodel or demolish the tower have been on hold due to the sheer cost of dealing with a building of that size, and nearby residents have complained about the vacant, graffiti-covered, and deteriorating structure.[2]
History
The building had a different department on each floor, in addition to a general hospital on the 13th and 14th floor, with the 5th floor housing the criminally insane and the basement holding a lab and morgue. During the building's history, allegations of patient abuse within the tower's premises often surfaced.[3] Furthermore, many of the patients were treated as "lost causes, impossible to reintegrate with society" and were essentially locked away inside the tower.[4] Since the building's closure to the public, it had become a popular destination for urban explorers, similar to the Rochester subway tunnels.[5][6] In 2017, a proposal was announced to demolish the tower and build a mixed-use development in its place, but no further details have come forth.[7] Estimated costs for redevelopment have risen to $32 million.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Terrence Building on Emporis.com
- ↑ Riley, David (2013-11-07). "Vacancy looms over Rochester's Azalea neighborhood". Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ "The Dark History Behind the Walls of a Massive New York Asylum". Architectural Afterlife. 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ Miller-Williams, Corey (2019-10-20). "Terrence Tower, the remains of a dark past". Campus Times. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Terrence Tower at Abandoned Rochester Psychiatric Hospital". FREAKTOGRAPHY. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ "RochesterSubway.com : Inside Rochester's Terrence Tower". 2013-07-08. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ "Rochester Psychiatric Center's vacant Terrance building to be torn down". spectrumlocalnews.com. 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
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