[1] The first passenger terminal was a small wooden depot constructed a few blocks to the south of the later station, near where I-490 passes today.

The passenger station is a brick, hip-roofed, 1+1⁄2-story structure with French Renaissance overtones, including "two-toned walls, copper gutters and flashing and a red tiled roof.

Passenger service ended in 1950 with the decline of the railroad which began during the Great Depression and resulted in it having to restructure its debt multiple times under the Chandler Acts of 1938–9.

[1] Local developer Max Farash bought the buildings in 1982 (for one dollar), and a two-year restoration process ensued.

[1] In 2018, a re-development project on the site of the former Rochester Subway Court Street station and remains of the service road resulted in a luxury high rise being built next door and in one of the footings used to support the station being used to also support a pedestrian walkway called the Genesee Riverway Promenade.