Rochester Free Academy

The Free Academy was founded by the Board of Education in 1853 and opened in 1857.^[2] Initially called "the High School," it was incorporated as the Rochester Free Academy in 1862.^[2] In 1871, the adjacent lot was purchased, and the surviving brick structure replaced the original school building.^[2]

• Isaac Adler, mayor of Rochester
• Lucy Elmina Anthony, leader in the American woman's suffrage movement
• Benjamin Cunningham, New York state court judge
• Edward Joseph Hanna, prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop of San Francisco
• Adolph J. Rodenbeck, lawyer, politician, and judge from Rochester