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Abandoned for decades, Rochester’s towering Terrence Building holds a chilling history of ambition and neglect. From its psychiatric past to eerie modern legends, discover why it remains one of the city’s most talked-about landmarks. Hidden in plain sight along Elmwood Avenue in Rochester, New York’s Azalea neighborhood, a redbrick, irregular capital I-shaped building looms over
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Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is an iconic American short story. First published in 1820, the story has been retold and re-imagined for 200 years. It was set in the Hudson River Valley in North Tarrytown, New York. North Tarrytown changed its name to Sleepy Hollow to capitalize on the story’s notoriety in
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Levi Valentine built this hall at the junction of High Street and Valentine Road in Victor, New York in 1879 in the hopes of creating a commercial center for a new town along a railroad. However, the railroad never came and the building was never used. It would have been one of the first indoor
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Visiting a former prison or asylum is an eerie experience, knowing you are free to explore where hundreds were once trapped. Has so much suffering and loneliness left something intangible behind? Most people avoid ending up in a prison or asylum, opting instead to experience it vicariously through television, movies, or books. When these institutions
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