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New Rochelle Downtown: Where an extraordinary past meets a promising future.

Norman Rockwell The New Rochelle Years

Norman Rockwell The New Rochelle Years

Norman Rockwell in the 1940s: A View of the American Homefront organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, and Norman Rockwell’s New Rochelle Years, organized by Barbara Davis, New…

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Main Street, New Rochelle

Main Street, New Rochelle

Businesses with Historic Character “Main Street is more than a line on the map. It’s a sense of place, a reflection on a simpler past, a connection to a heritage,”…

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Former Masonic Lodge – Library Building

Former Masonic Lodge – Library Building

451-453 Main Street Early History The local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Masons was making a clear statement when it constructed this imposing building at the turn of the…

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New Rochelle Public Library and Library Green

New Rochelle Public Library and Library Green

One Library PlazaCirca 1979 and 2001 Recipient of the National Award for Excellence for Library Architecture, the New Rochelle Public Library, built in 1979, in part from an existing parking…

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Talner’s Fine Jewelry and Giftware

Talner’s Fine Jewelry and Giftware

565 Main Street Leonard Italiano would be amazed by the vast and prestigious selection of jewelry, crystal, china and other fine gifts that fills the Main Street store at the…

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“The Arcade” Building

“The Arcade” Building

(Now the Curtain Shop and General Store)541 Main Street History of the Building This brick building replaced an earlier one that had been destroyed by fire on January 27, 1897….

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525 Main Street

525 Main Street

When Lou Gehrig shopped at I.B. Cohen’s, in the early 1930s, he had Nat Cohen make suits from material Gehrig had purchased while playing exhibition games in Japan. Each suit…

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510 Main Street

510 Main Street

Since 1927 New Rochelle children have been walking through the doors of 510 Main Street to buy their seasonal wardrobes. Unlike any other Main Street store, founded by Herman Liebman…

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Former National City Bank

Former National City Bank

“Banks are symbols of power, money, security and conservatism: their image, therefore, can be expected to be strong in terms of design. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,…

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519 Main Street

519 Main Street

What does 519 Main Street, at the prominent corner of Main Street and Memorial Plaza, have in common with the 81 Centre Artist Studios, Talner’s Jewelry, the Curtain Shop and…

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