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Syracuse (/ ˈ s ɪr ə k j uː z, ˈ s ɛr-,-k j uː s / SIRR-ə-kewz, SERR-, -kewss) [3] [4] [5] is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States.With a population of 148,620 and a metropolitan area of 662,057, [6] it is the fifth-most populated city and 13th-most populated municipality in the state of New York.
As of the census [6] of 2010, there were 826 people, 360 households, and 248 families living in the village. The population density was 888.2 inhabitants per square mile (342.9/km 2).
The National Register of Historic Places listings in Syracuse, New York are described below. There are 120 listed properties and districts in the city of Syracuse, including 19 business or public buildings, 13 historic districts, 6 churches, four school or university buildings, three parks, six apartment buildings, and 43 houses.
Hanover Square in downtown Syracuse is actually a triangle at the intersection of Warren, Water, and East Genesee Streets. The name may also refer to the larger Hanover Square Historic District which includes seventeen historic buildings in the area that was the first commercial district in Syracuse. [2]
Downtown Syracuse, as the rest of the city, grew as a result of the city's salt industry and its location on the Erie Canal. For over a century, it was also the retail and entertainment center of Central New York , with large department stores such as Chappell's , The Addis Co., Flah's, E.W. Edwards, Woolworth 's, Grant's, Lincoln Stores, The ...
The house at 701 Walnut Place is now owned by Syracuse University and utilized as the Chancellor's residence. It was built for attorney William Nottingham in 1901. The house was designed in the Jacobethan Revival style by architects Brockway and Benson of New York City. Leather lines the library walls.
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Armory Square is a small neighborhood on the west side of Downtown Syracuse, New York. It began life as a busy commercial and industrial area just to the west of the central city. After World War II, Syracuse's central city became less and less populated as more housing and business facilities were built in the suburbs.