Eastman Dental Center

The Eastman Dental Center, founded in 1915, along with the Eastman Department of Dentistry, is a unit of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, serving as the University of Rochester's primary dental care and education facility. The facilities are located within the Eastman Dental Center building and the University of Rochester Medical Center complex. The center was endowed by George Eastman as a separate entity from the University of Rochester. Eastman Dental Center merged as part of URMC in 1997.The original Eastman Dental Center was formerly located at 800 East Main Street Rochester. This formerly splendid building which once housed all Dental Center facilities has gone vacant and unnoccupied for many years and has thus fallen into major disrepair. While the building had been slated for demolition by its former owner, only an existing local landmark designation with the City of Rochester saved the building from imminent destruction. The building continues to be on a "threatened" list of significant local landmark structures which may soon have to be demolished of necessity - or through a natural causality - because of a prolonged period of extreme neglect and disrepair. [ The Eastman Dental Center has now been purchased by the owner of the nearby Armory Building. This new owner has now initiated a restoration of the building. While there are still few obvious signs of restoration, there is at least some evidence that some of the external building problems have been corrected, with a new roof on the building and some other weatherproofing of the building. [http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/dentistry/aboutus/history_chrono.cfm History/Chronology of Eastman Dental Center] ]