Gladi’- olus or Glad’-iolus…We Surrender to Rochester
From page 80 of January 1876 Issue of The Gardener’s Monthly and Horticulturist.
Gladiolus—The Pronunciation.
Gladiolus from Vick's Flower & Gardening Guide 1876
A correspondent writes :—”Vick accents the first syllable ; Webster, the second; and those not favored with the perusal of either, the third. Among those who wish to be governed by authority, the question arises: ‘Under which king?’ We were inclined to follow Webster, but examination reveals the fact that he has not followed his own analogy. For he has glad^- iator and glad^- iole both from the same root as gladiolus. So that apart from the consideration of whether Vick is not the higher authority in such things, he certainly has followed what seems to be correct analogy”. We surrender to Rochester, while awaiting the decision of the Editor.
Gladi’- olus.” [The analogy is not with its root but with the class to which it belongs. Diminutives have their penults short, in this respect differing from adjectives which have their penultimae long. The classical pronunciation therefore is gladi'-olus, that is, " a little sword."—Ed. G. M.]
Beyond the Lilacs: An Album from Arboretum Tours for 2011
The Highland Park Neighborhood Association has been presenting a 2011-2012 series entitled “Beyond the Lilacs: Tours of the Highland Park Arboretum, co-sponsored by the Highland Park Conservancy. These tours have featured aspects of the park tied to seasonal changes and the collections’ variety including The Pinetum, Trees donated by Ellwanger & Barry, the expansion of the Park and Secret Spaces and trails.
Themes for the first seven tours in the 2011-2012 series:
- May 14, 2011: ”Pinetum in Spring”
- May 22, 2011: “Trees from the Era of Ellwanger & Barry and Other Favorites”
- June 18, 2011: “Expansion of the Park and Secret Spaces”
- July 16, 2011: “Pinetum in Summer”
- September 17, 2011: “The Very End of Summer” **
- October 15, 2011: “Autumn in Our Highlands”
- November 19,2011 “Pinetum in Fall”
Amy Priestley, a neighborhood resident and former board member of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association, was the tour guide for six of the seven tours. Amy attended graduate school at Oregon State University’s College of Forest Science and her love of all that grows has extended to her business ventures. ** Thomas Jones, who is a long time friend of the Highland Park Neighborhood’s tours and exhibits and a member of Rochester’s Highland Park Conservancy, conducted the September tour.
Below is a photo album dedicated from tours that took place during 2011…look for a special entry called “Journey to the Dove Tree” on this site for an interesting tie-in to our “Nominated Trees” series. Click on any picture thumbnail to start a slideshow of this album. Each slide will also contain a “permalink” to a page of information with full size version of the photo.
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- May 14 ”Pinetum in Spring”
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- Pinetum Ahead
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- May 14: Azaleas in the Rain
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- May 14: Amy and her Mom
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- Kwanzan Flowering Cherry
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- June 18:“Expansion of the Park”
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- June 18: Sunken Garden
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- June 18: Paperbark Maple
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- July 16: “Pinetum in Summer”
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- July 16: Under a Conifer
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- Up on the Trail
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- September 17: “The Very End of Summer ””
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- September Tour Stop
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- A gift from Ellwanger & Barry
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- Magnolia Bark
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- Across the Valley
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- October 15: “Autumn in Our Highlands”
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- October 15: Fruit and Foliage
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- Autumn Color near Reservoir
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- Chinese Chestnuts
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- October 15:Path View
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- Tour Stop
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- October 15: Oak Leaf Color
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- Weeping Alaska Cedar
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- Pinetum Woods
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- Rainbow Shelf
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- Fresh Straw of the Pinetum
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- November 19: Pinetum in Fall
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- November 19: Pinetum in Fall
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- Pinetum in Fall
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- Giant Tulip Tree Leaves
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- What they saw straight up
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- City View from Highland Edge Trail
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- Blue Noble Fir
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- Group Portrait after November’s Tour
In Celebration of Lamberton Conservatory
Early 20th Century Postcard of Highland Park's Lamberton Conservatory
Rochester’s most beloved Glass House recently celebrated its 100th birthday. To honor this distinguished resident of the neighborhood, the scrapbook decided to mark the occasion with a special gallery of photos taken during the birthday weekend. (scroll down for the gallery or click here.) We start with an illustrated, introductory essay on the historical context of Lamberton Conservatory. For those seeking even more history of the structure, a complete set of linked references can be found at the bottom of this page.
London's Crystal Palace built in the 1850s
Conservatories have been with us for a while, at the very least since the first “glass house” was erected in the Oxford, England Botanic Garden in 1675. The last half of the 19th century brought refinements in the manufacturing, including that of iron and steel, that allowed economical construction of reinforced glass panels for roofs and building sides. The first results were spectacular structures such as London’s Crystal Palace which was built to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Buffalo's Central Palm Dome - The Conservatory in South Park
Closer to home, very similar methods were used to construct Buffalo’s tri-dome masterpiece, the conservatory of South Park which was finished in 1900. After 120 years, it remains one of the jewels of that’s city’s Olmstead designed park system. With a Central Palm Dome 67 feet high, South Park’s Conservatory is much larger than Rochester’s Lamberton, including the older building’s two additional end domes and long passages that connect South Park’s three main rooms. It was also more expensive by several factors. By the end of the 1970s, it was in crisis and so, by the early 80s, Erie County purchased the facility and restored portions in order to keep the conservatory from closure.
- Conservatory: Vick Garden Guide 1877
Within the expansive garden journals, guides and other related publications of the mid to late 1800s, conservatories were often mentioned. From the late 1860s, Rochester’s James Vick published a series of “Garden and Floral” guides which eventually evolved into an annual catalog. Around 1877, Vick also published a hard bound volume from which the illustration at left is taken (click on it for a larger version). At that time the author had these comments on the worth of a conservatory:
The Winter Garden proper, or Conservatory, is a delightful spot in which to spend an hour occasionally during the cold storms of winter, a little Eden of our own making, a tropical summer brought to our own doors…What a blessing a rich man would be to a neighborhood, if he were to build such a conservatory as we have described, and say to his neighbors and their children that it was constructed partly for their pleasure, and that, at certain times, say two or three days in a week, all were invited to call and enjoy its pleasures at their convenience.
Portrait of Lamberton Conservatory 2006
It is interesting to note this long-ago author’s view of a conservatory as something “a rich man” would share with his neighbors. Such was the typical thinking prior to the explosion in the development of public parks in the United States – a movement that began in the 1850s. Fortunately, with Buffalo’s system serving as an example, the public park system phenomenon swept through Rochester after 1888. And by 1911, a public conservatory was dedicated in our Highland Botanical Park to honor Alexander B. Lamberton, the reigning president of Rochester’s park commission.
Upper Dome of Conservatory -2006
Lamberton’s own family donated $20,000 for the building construction. The Lord & Burnham Company provided the plans and materials as they had for the public conservatories in Buffalo, San Francisco, and the United States Botanic Garden on the Capitol mall. Over time Lamberton was expanded, and as must happen to all glass houses, rebuilt and restored. That tradition is also old, for the gardeners of Oxford soon realized that neither glass house nor greenhouse with a slate roof gave the plants within enough light to thrive. But a transparent roof is like most other roofs as it represents a problem that must revisited with new materials and methods again and again over time. Unlike other roofs, however, undertaking to rebuild a transparent roof is something that takes an institutional-level commitment. Fortunately, this is a county that values the heritage of our park and its structures.
Open Dome: April 3, 2009 - Lamberton Re-opens
The latest reconstruction cost nearly $1 million to rebuild the original dome using modern glass and materials during 2008 -2009. When the Monroe County Parks Department had completed this work, I took the picture at left (which, like all illustrations on this page,links to a much bigger version) moments after the ribbon cutting ceremony on re-opening day: April 3, 2009. The dome was also restored to its original plan of one story – a site-seeing platform was removed ( see picture above for vestiges of the platform).
Lamberton on Holiday Night
And another attraction was added later that year as Monroe County Parks open the building for evening holiday hours and a tasteful light show within the conservatory rooms. During one of the first of these, I captured another slide show that is on an earlier scrapbook page – click at right to go there
Highland Park’s Lamberton Conservatory celebrated its 100th birthday over the weekend of November 5-6, 2011. That week was unusually balmy for mid Autumn in Rochester. As in recent years, the leaves lingered on the trees later than most of us have come to expect. All of this contributed to a very colorful exterior, even when under glass. Using multiple exposures and the digital technique known as HDR, I worked to capture the colors inside and out for the following album. I also made extensive use of a fish-eye lens in order to portray the sense of space. Please enjoy my tribute to one of the favorite buildings in the park and the neighborhood. Happy 100th Birthday Lamberton, you are looking good!
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- Lamberton’s Restored Dome
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- A Welcome Bouquet of Planted Flowers in Lamberton Conservatory
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- Facade and Plantings in the Seasonal Display House – Autumn 2011
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- The Colors of Lamberton Conservatory in the Seasonal Display House
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- White Display against the Autumn Outside in The Seasonal Display House.
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- The Seasonal Display House
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- The Seasonal Display House in the Autumn Season
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- A Giant Mum in the Seasonal Display House
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- Inside (and Outside) the Seasonal Display House
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- A corner in the Seasonal Display House
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- A Flower in the Seasonal Display House
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- Another Flower in the Seasonal Display House
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- The Room with Epiphytes, Orchids, Ferns and Exotics
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- Under the Dome – View 1 – Southern Roof
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- Under the Dome View 2
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- Under the Dome – View 3 – Near the Southern Door
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- Under the Dome – View 4
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- The Desert Environment Room
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- Lamberton’s room of Useful and House Plants
Suggested References:
Monroe County Parks - Highland Park and Lamberton Conservatory
Downloadable Map of Lamberton Conservatory from Monroe County Parks
Parks: Protecting Highland’s Rainforest: 2007 Article at City Newspaper
Lamberton Conservatory at RocWiki.org
The Botanical Gardens at South Park, Buffalo.
History of the Conservatory by Hardwood Conservatories UK
Records of the Lord & Burnham Company
Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden as Reproduced at Archive.org
The Crystal Palace – Topic at Wikipedia
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In Praise of Old Post Cards: The Fountain 2011
It was originally known at the “Mt. Hope Reservoir” and its construction in the mid 1870s predates the park in which it now resides. The Highland Park Reservoir and its fountain have been the subject of post cards since pictures on post cards first came onto the scene in the late 1800s. And that is what I had in mind when taking the first photo below in October 2011. The view immediately reminded of post cards that I had seen from one hundred year ago. For more examples of post cards of the fountain, see this earlier post.
Portrait of the Fountain 2011
Along The Highland Reservoir 1910
Mt Hope Reservoir,1904
Reservoir at Highland Park, 1905
In Memory of Kristine Smith
By Paul Urai
In September the Highland Park neighborhood suffered a great loss when Kristine Smith passed away. She was a civil servant for more than 30 years, retiring from her last position as Branch Head at the Maplewood Library. For several years, she served as secretary for our Ellwanger-Barry Neighborhood Association (known today as the Highland Park Neighborhood Association). More recently she started walking on our PAC TAC pizza walks and eventually became a fully trained PAC TACer.The cold of winter or rain of spring did not deter Kris and many times she was the only other walker with me and my wife Beth. 
She was always very helpful and full of
spunk and energy. Her beautiful spirit will be be sorely missed by us all.
Sleigh Ride on Crawford
Dianne Demark (via John Richter) recently sent us two interesting photos taken on Crawford Street during the mid twentieth century. The homes on this street date from 1910-1920. While the exact date of the photos is not known, Dianne believes they are from 1944 or 1945. Diane wrote that the first picture shows “my dad Shirley W. Stubbe and my maternal grandmother Josephine Gleichauf and my brother Raymond Stubbe, in front of our home at 153 Crawford Street.” along with some of Crawford’s well known Sycamore trees. Diane tells us that the second photo is also of her dad “ Shirley Weston Stubbe and my three brothers John, Raymond and Mallory Stubbe” — the background of this photo features the Ellwanger & Barry School #24,. Thank you, Dianne, for sharing these wonderful family images!
Shirley W. Stubbe along with his mother-in-law Josephine Gleichauf and son Raymond Stubbe in front of the family home at 153 Crawford
Shirley Weston Stubbe and sons John, Raymond and Mallory Stubbe in front of the Ellwanger & Barry School #24 around 1944
Panoramas of TON 2011
The Highland Park Neighborhood Association’s Fifth Annual “Taste of the Neighborhood” event
was also its fifth successful September celebration with a gathering of neighbors, business owners, local officials, police and other friends. The “pot-luck” buffet table was once again filled with many a neighbors’ savory specialty or homemade dessert. Our area restaurants, delis, bakeries and confectioners also contributed to the repast. And all that was in addition to another annual tradition: Grilled hamburgers & hot dogs from Rochester Meats on freshly baked rolls from Georgies.
For the second year, the music of “The Highlanders” (a band made up primarily of neighbors) filled the park even as the jugglers from “Airplay” entertained young and old on Linden Street. When the band was on break, demonstrations of Zumba dancing and other skills were on display. And many among us enjoyed the art of conversation among neighbors and friends all afternoon…while other, younger residents created a large hopscotch area on Meigs St or just revisited their favorite playground apparatus.
Below are few panorama photos of a people-filled Ellwanger & Barry Park on the festive day. Each of these pictures links to a much larger version. Let these serve as one remembrance of how our community of neighbors spends one Sunday in September every year…
Pictures on Meigs – An Update
Click for Sheila Kinsky's Stories
Former Resident Sheila Kinsky previously shared an article about the Generations on Meigs St of her family that have lived at a house built for her grandfather around 1910. She included stories about her own childhood, other people and descriptions of many parts of the neighborhood. Find that story by clicking on the picture to the right.
Recently Sheila sent us several picturesof her family from early in the 20th Century taken outside her family’s house on Meigs Street.
Connolly Family in 1911 on Meigs St
Marie Connolly on Meigs St
1918 City Directory Showing Connolly Residence
At the time of the pictures, Meigs Street extended only to Rockingham as this was during the era that the Ellwanger & Barry Realty Company was continuing to develop former nursery grounds and extending the Neighborhood from Linden to the edge of Highland Park. If you click on the pictures to get a bigger view you will be able to see that the area south of the house is sparsely developed.
Shown above is a clip taken from the 1918 City Directory for the City of Rochester that shows James & Marie Connolly (Sheila’s grandparents) were at that time living at the 929 Meigs address. When looking to traces a relative from long ago or business (including vintage ads), browse online in The Rochester Directory site (maintained by the Monroe County Library System). The site currently has City Directory volumes available from the 1840s to 1930, later volumes are found within the stacks of the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County at 115 South Avenue.
A Neighborly Night Out
The Highland Park Neighborhood participated in its first National Night Out event on August 2 , 2011 in Ellwanger & Barry Park. Volunteers and City employees displayed information on PACTAC and SCUBA safety programs. The HPNA Traffic Calming Team provided an update on the upcoming intersection art project at Linden and Meigs. Videos on that theme and other Neighborhood films were on constant display. Several local politicians joined residents and members of the board of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association for the three hour event. Attendees also included quite a few children and their parents who supported the National Night Out concept just by using the playground equipment during their visit.
The HPNA Traffic Calming Team at the 2011 National Night Out Event
Rochester Polict Department's SCUBA Squad attracted young fans at the 2011 HPNA National Night Event
Another Lovely Evening for Music
Book & Mike returned to Ellwanger & Barry Park for another early evening of music on July 13, 2011. Once again, Neighbors and their children and Friends enjoyed perfect weather for a picnic and a wonderful concert.
Panorama of Book & Mike Concert - July 13, 2011 - Version 1
Panorama of Book & Mike Concert - July 13, 2011 - Version 2
And of course, there is also a video…
New Planters for Ellwanger & Barry Park
In July 2011 Volunteers for the Highland Park Neighborhood completed the installation of a set of new planters for Ellwanger & Barry Park. The planters were funded by the City of Rochester’s Capital Improvement Program. The project was designed and approved while working with the City South-East Quadrant Team (along with the Neighborhood Association) and marks the conclusion of the efforts that began with the commission of the park’s new Sculpture.
The Rochester Grape
Our choice to use wine barrels was originally suggested by City Horticulturalist Michael Warren Thomas who helped in the design and construction of the sculpture garden and also provided plants for the new planters. While we made every effort to obtain the barrels from a local winery, eventually we found available stock online. So our barrels, made of French Oak, were originally constructed in Bordeaux, France and then next moved to Napa Valley where they were used to age wine of the Silverado Winery. After arriving in Rochester, Highland Park Neighborhood Association volunteers drilled drainage holes, added drainage screening and fastened all loose Barrel hoops and plugged the bung holes. We filled each of the four half barrels and five three quarter barrels with drainage materials, potting soils and some water retention crystals. In early July, the planting was completed.
Ellwanger & Barry’s Mt Hope Nurseries were famous for their wide varieties of commercial fruit stock including a new strain of grapes that they introduced named “Rochester”. So we believe these new planters maintain those Connections in our park named in their honor.
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- Michael fastens the loose barrel hoops
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- Meigs St Street Entrance.
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- Planters and Sculpture funding was provided by the City working with the Neighborhood Service Center office.
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- Planters and Playtime share the summer.
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- From Bordeaux to Napa to Rochester….
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- Initial View at Meigs St Corner
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- Meigs Street View
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- Linden Street Planter.
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- By Early August, the Cana Lillies have adjusted nicely.
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- A month after installation and planting…
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- Late August Growth
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- The Designer inspects our planters in early September
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- Planter Designer
The 100 Year Old Welcome Still Applies
Click for a Larger Picture
This small button recently entered my collection. It’s seems appropriate for July 4, 2011 to remind anyone reading this blog that what was said in 1911 is still true: ”A Welcome Awaits You at Rochester, The Flower City.” And that applies especially to the Highland Park Neighborhood and its surrounding area!
Flower & Ice, Now and Then Slideshow
Our 2011 Exhibit, first shown at the lower Gatehouse in Highland Park, is coming to the Web on this site as part of a series of events called “Picture the Neighborhood” and “Flower & Ice:On The Spot”.
Highland Park Neighborhood won the 2011 Neighborhood Spirit Contest held during the Rochester Flower City Challenge Half Marathon on May 1, 2011. After the race, runners were asked to complete a survey, inidicating which neighborhood that they had run through displayed the most spirit and energy during the race. The results were overwhelming – 649 runners voted, and this neighborhood garnered 67% of the votes!
As a prize, Highland Park Neighborhood Association won $750 to put towards a neighborhood beautification project. A big thanks goes out to all the great volunteers who organized our participants and woke up early to decorate our stretch of the race.
Here are some comments from event participants:
- Lots of great decorations and spectators. Plus, who doesn’t love kids drawing in chalk on the road and cheering us on as we run up a hill? It was a great distraction
- I think the neighborhood deserves it because, they are young families that came out with their kids in strollers and they deserve the money to improve the neighborhood to make it more enjoyable for the young kids. Also it’s a great thing for young kinds to see runners compete since we can have a positive influence on them to come out and start running
- LOVED the “flowers” they made and put along the street – they had great, spirited spectators as well!
- Tons of folks out to cheer and support, paper flowers lining the street, water station with neighborhood banners. They were awesome (and I live in Zone 2).
- They had a great energy all the way up the hill (which was very helpful), they had great t-shirts, a water stop which I’m guessing was at their own expense and were just a lot of fun on that hill. Great job and thank you for putting so much effort into cheering the runners on!
- I loved all the signs and flowers. They even wore t-shirts to support highland park. Nice Job!
- The neighbors were dressed in purple symbolizing the lilacs of highland park. They made flowers & put them in the grass, children were playing instruments, they had water for us, & were over all enthusiastic as we ran by. With that said, the support from all spectators was amazing. As a first time runner, they helped me stay motivated & excited!
- The Highland Park Neighborhood definitely had the most spirit! They had signs designating their neighborhood and cheering the runners on, and many groups of people cheering in their neighborhood zone. They also had a banner for their neighborhood and decorations along the way so that it felt like one cohesive unit.
- So many people outside, with neighborhood shirts on, cheering… It was great! The community support today was great. I live in NYC where there is lots of support at running events. Having grown up in Roch I was really sad that there was little community support during marathon last fall. Today Roch really redeemed itself from start to finish
- While I felt a lot of the neighborhoods made a great effort to cheer on the runners, Zone 5 went above and beyond! The fold there had matching T-shirts, great noisemakers and music, and decorated the entire length of their section. It was great to see the support from them, and ALL the neighborhoods!
- They had the greatest number of neighbors out. They created their own water station. Extremely encouraging and friendly. Chalk on the streets, signs and paper mache flowers. Great decorations. Felt very welcomed and encouraged especially right before the big hills. Adorable children and families.
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A Visual History of Ellwanger & Barry Park
Poster from 2008-2009 Exhibit
In 2008, we began work on an exhibit for the Neighborhood Association’s lilac festival booth entitled “The Arboretum that became a Neighborhood”. That exhibit took a year to arrive at its final form and was the basis of our 2009 printed calendar. The exhibit features an illustrated timeline which follows the development of the Highland Park Neighborhood, the Ellwanger & Barry businesses and Highland Park itself over the last 175+ years – starting from the days when Rochester was first chartered as a city. We have always intended to bring the entire exhibit to the web, and finally, we have now (nearly) completed a first installment with “A Visual History of Ellwanger & Barry Park“. This is one part of our “Connections” web and an associated ongoing project to connect our residents with our heritage through cultural events and creations. Your feedback, as always, is appreciated.
The First in a Series of Annotated Timelines based on the Exhibit "The Arboretum that Became a Neighborhood"
A 1900 Wedgwood Jug Commissioned by George H Ellwanger
An Antique Commissioned by George Herman Ellwanger to Commemorate the Turn of the Century
by Philip Mannino
These pictures illustrate a blue and white transferware jug that was manufactured by Josiah Wedgwood and sons in Erutria, England. It is known as a commemorative piece specific to the City of Rochester, NY. George H. Ellwanger was wholly responsible for it’s creation. I believe it was he who had the forethought to have this wonderful piece made specifically as he saw fit. It was probably made for him to give to a group of his closest friends and allies. There were 52 only made. The jug is part of the history of Rochester from a member of a the illustrious Ellwanger family.
The Front of the Antique Jug - Click for Larger Version
This Wedgwood jug commemorates Rochester as the Flower City. On the front, the circle insignia reflects Rochester settled in 1812, and incorporated a city 1834. Within the circle image is the banner held by the eagle that read, “Flour City”. Also in the left side is an image of the rail system, above that, an image of the “Old Capitol”, and on the right side are Rochester’s Lower Falls. At the bottom of the insignia are the populations of people in 1813 and 1892, which is 331 and 144,834 respectively. And the two ladies on each side of the insignia are holding a cornucopia on the left, and wheat sheaves on the right.
The Right Side of the Antique Jug - Click for Larger Version
The right side of the Wedgwood jug commemorates Rochester’s Old Court House. In the image, at street level are the carriages pulled by horses. This is the exact image of the court house found in historian’s books of Rochester history. George H. Ellwanger must’ve gone to the court house and requested an exact image to forward to Josiah Wedgwood Pottery in England to transfer the image to the pottery. Surrounding the oval image are dogwood leaves and the dogwood flowers in bloom. Below the oval image in the darker border are fruit images of peaches, pear, grapes, and plums which is appropriate for the son of George Ellwanger who fully understands where his roots are.
Above the oval image is a continuation of the Prize Ode of Frederic
The Left Side of the Antique Jug - Click for Larger Version
Whittlesey, in part,
“Behold! a change which proves e’vn fiction true-
More springing wonders than Aladdin knew!
Proud domes are reared upon the gray wolf’s den
And forest beasts have fled their haunts for men!”
Now when you think about it, there is that dome that Whittlesey is probably referring to. Clever that Geo. H. Ellwanger recognized this enough to commemorate Rochester’s evolution.
The left side of the Wedgwood jug shows an image of Indians all looking to what I perceive as east as one is pointing in that direction as if to point towards Rochester. As we all know, they were here first, and progress forced them in the opposite direction. That was part of the progression of any evolving city. I believe that is what Geo. H. Ellwanger is commemorating here. It is little known that there once was a common path the Indians took through the grounds of the Ellwanger estate on Mt. Hope Ave.
Above the oval image of the Indians is the banner of the Prize Ode in 1826 by Frederic Whittlesey which reads,
“These glittering spires and teeming streets confess
That man, -Free Man- hath guell’d the wilderness,
Before him forests fell- the desert smiled-
And he hath rear’d this City Of The Wild.”
The Bottom of the Antique Jug - Click for Larger Version
On the bottom of this commemorative jug it reads in full, “52 jugs only, manufactured specifically for G.H. Ellwanger, by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Etruria, England.”
The pottery mark on the bottom proves it was made April 1900.
(All photos and text courtesy Philip Mannino)
Connections: The Neighborhood Project Comes to the Web
The Connections Project comes to the internet with a series of pages centered on the Pear Tree sculpture designed for Ellwanger & Barry Park by artist Craig Wilson. Our Connections web includes the story of the Ellwanger & Barry Park’s renaming which took place at the 2009 Taste of the Neighborhood event. We also introduce the first in a series of illustrated timelines: Center of a Neighborhood which features the history of the playground. Along with the recent story of how this new sculpture honoring Ellwanger & Barry came to reside in the park, Connections includes the contributions of residents, adults and children, who illustrated their own Connection to this project. The article “Why a Pear Tree?” presents more illustrated history: the significance of the pear – which may have been the most important of the various fruit stocks in the inventory of the Mt Hope Nursery. So click on the graphic at right to go to the Connections pages. And after you browse,you might consider extending this project by letting us know about your connection to this neighborhood using your own words, picture or video.
Halloween Parade in Ellwanger & Barry Park
The Highland Park Neighborhood Association’s Annual Halloween Party and Parade took place on Sunday October 24, 2010 at 4:00 pm. Click to see larger version of this panorama
Another Panorama from The Highland Park Neighborhood Association’s Annual Halloween Party and Parade. Click to Enlarge.
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Have you “met” our neighbor, Henry Clune?
During my husband’s and my first visit to George Eastman House shortly after moving to Rochester in 1984, our docent shocked us with the story of Mr. Eastman’s suicide. She also told us about Henry Clune, a D&C columnist (“Seen and Heard” [about Rochester], discontinued in 1969) and author. She said that Mr. Clune had written some novels that were perceived to feature a thinly disguised Mr. Eastman. One such novel implied an improper relationship between the protagonist and a married woman, possibly based on Josephine Dickman or one of Eastman’s “Lobster Quartet” mentioned, but not identified, on several websites,
Our interest was piqued! We went on a search for Henry Clune. We discovered him through the Monroe County Library and read his all of his novels, including By His Own Hand (1952), The Big Fella (1956), and Six O’Clock Casual (1960). His non-fiction book, The Genesee (1963), which he wrote with Robert Koch, gave us impetus to explore the length of the river. The Rochester I Know (1972) and I Always Liked It Here: A Reminiscence of a Rochesterian (1983) gave us another’s perspective of Rochester.The first from Bill Kauffman as read at Henry’s Memorial Service October 12, 1995, at Christ Church, Rochester and the second by Robert G. Koch and also preserved at The Crooked Lake Review 
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If you are at all interested, I would encourage you to discover Henry Clune for yourself. Visit the Monroe County Library. Search on “Clune, Henry” under “Author or Name”. You can even see him there if you still have a VHS player, i.e., Reminiscing with Henie Clune, a film and Interview of Henry Clune at St. Mary’s Church . His books and papers are available at the University of Rochester. See this link at the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation And if you want a taste before hunting, you can try him out here in “Remembering Front Street” which he wrote with Robert Koch and city historian, Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck.
Contributed by Nan Schaller
Editor’s Notes: The Genesee is also viewable at Google Books at this Link.
If you have an interesting story to contribute, please e-mail us a highlandscrapbook@gmail.com
An Expanded “Blossoms” Exhibit at City Hall
The exhibit Blossoms, Business and The City of Flowers is on display until September 14th, 2010 at Rochester’s City Hall in the Visitor Room’s Gallery. In addition to descriptive posters, this version of the exhibit includes several originals from the nurseries, seed companies, graphic artists and printing companies that eventually gave Rochester its nickname as “The Flower City“. If you go, tell us what you think…
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- Introductory Panel
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- Exhibit Poster
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- Left Window
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- Right Window
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- Main Display of Blossoms, Business and The City of Flowers
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- Poster is just one Reproduction Available
