I scanned a large booklet of First Federal Plaza from 1977. It open in June 1976 and this was probably an attempt to fill up the building. The booklet has a copper-colored cover with an embossing of the building. In the building was the main office of First Federal Savings Bank. They owned the building until 1996 when First Federal merged with Marine Midland Bank. They didn’t really want the building so they sold it in 1998. The building is supposedly for sale if you are interested. Currently on the street level is M&T Bank.

The building was notable for the rotating restaurant on top. It was called the Changing Scene. It closed in 1988. Since then it has used as office space. Reliable sources say that the mechanism for turning the former restaurant have been taken out.

I also uploaded my version of Quaker Records: Rochester Monthly Meeting, Monroe County, New York. I have had a really poor copy of this for about 20 years that was almost unreadable. I found another version online and I cleaned it up as each page had ugly borders that I deleted.

The organization is known as the Society of Friends but most people refer to the members as Quakers. They first met in Rochester in 1817 and officially formed the Rochester organization in 1825. In 1827-8 they split into two factions: Hicksite and Orthodox. This document has records from both factions up to about 1928. The two factions would merge again in the 20th century.

The Society of Friends has always been anti-war. They were one of the earliest religious organizations against slavery. Anti-slavery champions in Rochester from the organization were Isaac and Amy Post. Susan B. Anthony was also from a Quaker family and is mentioned in the records.

The Society of Friends still exists in Rochester and they now meet at Downtown United Presbyterian Church on Sunday mornings.