The Memorial Art Gallery remains closed Wednesday, Jan. 28, after a fire damaged a nearby building that was once part of the University’s historic Prince Street Campus.
The gallery—including the Gallery Store and the Creative Workshop—was closed Tuesday as firefighters responded early in the morning to the fire at 247 North Goodman Street.
The gallery is expected to open as usual at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 29.
Museum workers are running air-scrubbing equipment to protect sensitive artwork from the potential effects of smoke and soot.
The nearby building, once known as the Carnegie Building, opened as classroom and laboratory space for engineering at the University’s Prince Street Campus in 1911.
The building was renovated in 1930 for the study of geology, psychology, and sociology, and in 1944 the upper floors were converted for dormitory use by the College for Women, according to Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian. The University sold the building in 1955, she says.
According to the Democrat and Chronicle, the building was home to a small architecture company and was under renovation at the time of the fire. The structure is being demolished.
