Rochester, in Four Volumes: The Water-Power City, 1812-1854; The Flower City, 1855-1890; The Quest for Quality, 1890-1925; An Emerging Metropolis, 1925-1961

xvi, 383; xvii, 407; xiv, 432; xvi, 404 pp. Four volume set. Rochester the Water-Power City: 1812-1854 tells of the community's water-power era. Rochester the Flower City: 1855-1890 tells the story of the emergence of new industries, the arrival of new residents, and, even more important, the forging of new economic, civic, and social relationship. Rochester the Quest for Quality: 1890-1925 is the story of how a city grew, industrially and culturally, and in civic vitality. Rochester an Emerging Metropolis: 1925-1961 studies the process by which the blighted economy of the depression years was transformed into one of the most fully active industrial nebulae in America today.