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Our History

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View from Hanover Square into Clinton Square in mid-1800's. In the loud, tawdry, throwaway culture of modern television, we need stories of a quieter kind, a longer lasting kind, a kind with character. And communities have stories. Without a story, who are we? Destroy the past, abuse the past, turn your backs on the past and you're turning your backs on and destroying all we have. Syracuse - An Historic Outline. By Henry W. Schramm. Named Syracuse in 1820 by John Wilkinson after a city of similar geograp...

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Clinton Square History, Downtown Syracuse NY

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The Soldiers and Sailors' monument today. Syracuse Then and Now. The Jerry Rescue Monument, Clinton Square. Postcard of Clinton Square Canal Boats 1905. Postcard of Clinton Square in 1906 (looking East). Postcard of Clinton Square around 1908 (looking East). Postcard of Clinton Square in 1909 (looking Northwest). Postcard of Clinton Square about 1912 (looking East). Postcard of Clinton Square about 1925 (looking Northwest). The Art Deco Niagara Mohawk Building, Erie Blvd. (today).

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Your Home

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Preserving Your Historic Home. Older homes like those in Syracuse are unlike anything being built today. The highly skilled craftsmen that once exactingly fit hardwood moldings around windows, doors, ceilings and floors are long gone. They've been replaced with simpler, cheaper materials and techniques. The Repair of Historic Wooden Windows. Preservation Brief #1009) or. The Repair and Thermal Upgrading of Historic Steel Windows. Still thinking about new windows? Handmade plaster walls, displaying the sl...

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Guest Book

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We'd like to know what you think about Syracuse Then and Now. Please leave your comments in this public guest book so we can share your thoughts with other visitors. To contact us directly, please send email to:. After you submit your comments, they may not show up here for a day or two. Please be patient. Spam posting has made it necessary for us to screen entries to this page. Just found out about the PACNY web site, it is very interesting, keep up the good work. Nice site - much needed! This is a rema...

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Our Challenges

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We have been thoughtless, carefree opportunists, outgrowing our cities [and] the houses of our fathers. Either we tear down and rebuild or we move away from the old centers. This is not 'progress' but an enormous destruction of property values. 1922 - Jesse Clyde Nichols, founder of the Urban Land Institute. From 1950 to 2000, the City of Syracuse lost 50,000 residents - one out of every three households. How we destroyed the city to save it. When home ownership isn't for everyone. Syracuse Then and Now.

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Architects

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Architecture is a continuing dialogue. Which creates an environment across time. There are four architects well known in Syracuse for the work they did during the city's boom period: Horatio Nelson White, Joseph Lyman Silsbee, Archimedes Russell. And Ward Wellington Ward. In addition to these four there are a number of other, sometimes overlooked architects whose work also helped to define Syracuse during this period. All are listed below. George W. Baxter, Jr. Albert L. Brockway. James H. Kirby.

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Wanted: 60,000 new city residents

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Wanted: 60,000 new middle-income households. Franklin Properties, LLC. The key to any city's future lies in its ability to attract and retain middle-income residents. This presentation was delivered to the Thursday Morning Roundtable at University College in Syracuse, April 6, 2006. Click in the window below to install the Photodex Plugin. You may have to click in the bar above to allow the installation. Then right-click in the window and choose Full Screen). Some points from the presentation:. Great nei...

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Neighborhoods

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Postcard of West Onondaga Street about 1910. Source: Onondaga County Library). What is a Neighborhood? Traditional neighborhoods share these characteristics:. A neighborhood has a discernible center, often a patch of green, sometimes a busy or memorable street corner. In Westcott it is the business district with its theater, restaurants and shops; in Strathmore it is Hiawatha Lake and the surrounding park. Living in the suburbs can make you sick. The five minute walk. Narrow, versatile streets. These nei...

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Green Preservation

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The greenest building is the one that already exists. Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Preservation Association of Central New York. Efforts to preserve our nation's historic architecture have traditionally been based on cultural, aesthetic and more recently economic concerns. But in this age of climate change and natural resource depletion, that may soon change. Important new partnerships are being forged between historic preservationists and the green building movement. Urban planner Andres Duany, who oversaw de...