FIRST RIT CAMPUS
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- 126 Spring Street, Rochester, NY
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Rochester Institute of Technology
FIRST RIT CAMPUS
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FIRST RIT CAMPUSROCHESTER ATHENAEUM EST. 1829
MECHANICS INSTITUTE EST. 1885
LOCATED HERE. MERGED 1891 &
RENAMED ROCHESTER INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY IN 1944.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018
It was at this site that the first Rochester Institute of Technology campus was located. The first school established in 1829, was a liberal arts college known as the Rochester Athenaeum. In 1885 a technical school, the Mechanics Institute, was established on the same site. In 1891 the two schools merged and in 1944 the school changed its name to the Rochester Institute of Technology which it is still known as today.
