Architectural Intervention of a Historic Site

RIT's interior design program spent the first week of the 2026 spring semester working in teams to develop proposals for an architectural intervention within a historic downtown Rochester structure. Students designed theoretical exhibition spaces on the site of St. Joseph’s Church and Rectory dedicated to sharing its cultural significance. A fire gutted the Franklin Street church in 1974, but with the city preserving the surviving masonry walls as an architectural monument, its memory was recognized by being added to the National Register of Historic Places.