{"id":11941,"date":"2015-10-25T11:05:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2015-10-25T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:05:24","slug":"marshmallows-and-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/10\/marshmallows-and-rochester\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshmallows and Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The former Rochester Marshmallow Company factory located in the High Falls District. [PHOTO: India Lombardi-Bello]\" rel=\"lightbox-marshmallowCompany\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-marshmallow-company.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-marshmallow-company.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"The former Rochester Marshmallow Company factory located in the High Falls District. [PHOTO: India Lombardi-Bello]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><i>Story via <a href=\"http:\/\/rochesterbrainery.com\/blogs\/rochester-brainery\/53555908-weird-history-wednesday-marshmallows-in-rochester\">Rochester Brainery<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>This former Rochester Plumbing Supply building at <a href=\"http:\/\/rochesterbrainery.com\/blogs\/rochester-brainery\/53555908-weird-history-wednesday-marshmallows-in-rochester\" target=\"_new\">281 Mill Street <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> has recently been renovated and converted into 14 new apartments in downtown&#8217;s growing High Falls district. This is an exciting development not only because of the new life it will add to this neighborhood, but because this building has a pretty <i>sweet<\/i> past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1445783862051!6m8!1m7!1sZQjJlgi8I39RVppAoNhshQ!2m2!1d43.16180110667499!2d-77.61850253762938!3f251.13187415959388!4f7.963038591796945!5f0.7820865974627469\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Before it was home to Rochester Plumbing Supply (sometime around 1920) this was the Rochester Marshmallow Company and where Rochester native, Joseph B. Demerath, brought the candy to the masses. No, marshmallows were not been invented in Rochester\u2014they actually date all the way back to ancient Egypt\u2014but you might say this is where one of America&#8217;s favorite sweet treats came of age.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, head over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/rochesterbrainery.com\/blogs\/rochester-brainery\/53555908-weird-history-wednesday-marshmallows-in-rochester\" target=\"_new\">Rochester Brainery Blog <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin:20px 0px 0px 0px;\">\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story via Rochester Brainery This former Rochester Plumbing Supply building at 281 Mill Street has recently been renovated and converted into 14 new apartments in downtown&#8217;s growing High Falls district. This is an exciting development not only because of the new life it will add to this neighborhood, but because this building has a pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3095,1293,3025,15,114,79],"tags":[271,356,3654,3655,2898,549,53,355,3653,151,291],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-2","category-reader-submitted-stories","category-rochester-apartments-2","category-rochester_history","category-rochester_news","category-urban_development","tag-high-falls","tag-history-of-rochester","tag-history-of-the-marshmallow","tag-joseph-b-demerath","tag-marshmallows","tag-mill-street","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-history","tag-rochester-marshmallow-company","tag-rochester-ny","tag-the-mills-at-high-falls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11943,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions\/11943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}