Green Lakes State Park

Round Lake National Natural Landmark lies within Green Lakes State Park, which lies a few miles east of the city of Syracuse, New York and adjoining the village of Fayetteville. Round Lake itself and the adjoining 59 acres (24 ha) of old-growth forest were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1973 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Hubert W. Vogelmann, a professor of botany at the University of Vermont, wrote the evaluation to the National Park Service that concurred with the recommendation of National Natural Landmark status for the region around Round Lake. Vogelmann's evaluation noted the "outstanding virgin mesophytic forest" adjoining Round Lake on its southwestern side; this text became part of the citation when the landmark was created. Vogelmann also noted Round Lake's importance as an extremely rare, "meromictic" lake. It shares this distinction with Green Lake, which lies a few hundred meters to the east.

Green Lake is the larger of the two lakes in Green Lakes State Park, which lies about 9 miles (14 km) east of downtown Syracuse in Onondaga County, New York. Round Lake is the smaller lake located west of Green Lake. Both lakes are meromictic, which means no seasonal mixing of surface and bottom waters occurs. Meromictic lakes are fairly rare; they have been extensively studied, in part because their sediments can preserve a historical record extending back thousands of years, and because of the euxinic (anoxic, sulfidic) conditions which can form in the deep water.

Manlius is a town to the east of Syracuse in Onondaga County. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 33,712, making it the third largest suburb in metropolitan Syracuse. In 2005, the town was ranked 98th on CNN's list of Best Places to Live.The town of Manlius includes a village also named Manlius, along with the villages of Fayetteville and Minoa. It is located on the eastern border of Onondaga County.

Fayetteville is a village located in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 4,225. The village is named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a national hero of both France and the United States. It is part of the Syracuse Metropolitan Statistical Area. Fayetteville is located in the town of Manlius and is an eastern suburb of Syracuse.

The Levi Snell House is a house with Greek Revival and Italianate architecture in Fayetteville, New York. It was built in 1855 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.It's a "substantial, largely intact, mid-nineteenth century brick residence which illustrates the residential designs frequently favored by the prosperous but conservative merchant classes in small upstate New York communities of that period. The house incorporates square massing of the relatively new Italianate style, such as wide eaves and a bracketed cornice, into a traditional five-bay center hall-plan residence with porches, doors and windows treated in the older Greek Revival style." : 6 Its first two owners were Levi Snell and Marquis L. Peck.

Mycenae Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located in the hamlet of Mycenae in the town of Manlius in Onondaga County, New York. It is a one-story building built of locally quarried limestone with a low-pitched gabled roof in the Greek Revival style. The roof features a small belfry. It was built in 1850 and ceased being used as a school in 1936.It is prominently located on NY 5. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In recent years it has been used as an antiques shop. As of late 2009, the building is vacant and available for sale or for rent.

The Genesee Street Hill–Limestone Plaza Historic District is a historic district in Fayetteville, New York that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The western border of the district is Limestone Creek. The district includes multiple Greek Revival houses, as well as Italianate and Federal architecture styles, along East Genesee Street as it rises from Limestone Plaza to Chapel Street, near the top of East Genesee Street Hill (which is the village center of Fayetteville). It includes a 12 acres (4.9 ha) area.

Fayetteville–Manlius High School (also F-M High School or FMHS) is a comprehensive New York public high school on East Seneca Turnpike in the Town of Manlius, serving grades 9–12 in the Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District. It is the only high school in the district, and is the successor to both Wellwood Middle School and Eagle Hill Middle School. The school is governed under the authority of the New York State Education Department, whose standardized examinations are designed and administered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York.

Mycenae is a hamlet in the Town of Manlius, New York, within Onondaga County, United States. It lies at the meeting point of New York Route 5 and Route 290. Mycenae is located at 43° 02' 56" North, 75° 55' 50" West. Presumably the hamlet was named after the ancient Greek city of Mycenae.

The Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District (F-M) is a K-12 public school district located in the Town of Manlius in Central New York, enrolling approximately 4,800 students. F-M serves a large portion of the Town of Manlius, including the villages of Manlius and Fayetteville, as well as portions of Jamesville and Pompey. The district is partially funded by and governed under the authority of the New York State Education Department, whose standardized examinations are designed and administered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. The district has been recognized statewide and nationally for academic and athletic excellence. In 2015, the high school was ranked #79 in the nation in Newsweek's list of "America's Top High Schools". As of 2019, Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School was ranked #86 within New York State.

Minoa is a village in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,657. Minoa is in the northern part of the town of Manlius and is east of Syracuse.

The Manlius Village Historic District is a 15-acre (6.1 ha) historic district on the east side of the Village of Manlius, in the Town of Manlius, New York, about 9.5 miles from the downtown of Syracuse. The village was bypassed by later transportation—Genesee Street/Route 5, which took a flatter course to the north, the Erie Canal, which generated growth of Syracuse, railroads, and the NYS Thruway in the 1950s—and "thus retains much of the flavor of the turnpike era to which this small Onondaga County village owes its existence.": 7 The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The district includes four churches and one commercial block building on the western edge of the district. "The district does not include the downtown commercial area of Manlius because a number of fires, remodelings, and demolitions have infringed on its visual continuity.": 3  Most of the 50 contributing buildings in the district are single-family homes. Most of the buildings are on Seneca Street, part of the old Seneca Turnpike, or one block north on Pleasant Street. The district, which comprises a three-block area, includes several buildings dating from approximately 1813, when the village of Manlius was incorporated, as well as buildings constructed later in the 19th century and a few 20th-century buildings. It includes Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles.The first wave of construction in the village was around its incorporation in 1813. The Christ Episcopal Church, Smith Hall, and other buildings that still survive in the district were built during that time. Smith Hall, built during 1813–16, was expanded in 1824 to include a third-floor meeting room for the Masons. The "lodge room still has murals depicting symbolic Masonic scenes; these are said to have been painted early in the nineteenth century by an itinerant painter by the name of Fish. The paintings were later covered by wallpaper and were rediscovered in 1902.": 4  The buildings at 105 North Street and 112 Franklin Street, both pictured, are residential examples of structures built during the first wave of construction and are also two of the five buildings in the district to be adorned with pilasters.: 4 Greek Revival was a predominant architectural style in the second wave of building in the 1830s. 311 Pleasant Street, pictured, is an example of this style in a residential structure. Later construction included the bandstand in Academy Park on Seneca Street in the 1880s and First Baptist Church on North Street in 1929, both pictured. Beginning at the east side of the district on Seneca Street, the properties in the district are as follows: 503 Seneca Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s 501 Seneca Street, a pilastered house with an off-center doorway and faced gable end to the street, stone hitching posts flank a stone mounting block at the street, built in the first wave of construction circa 1810 500 Seneca Street, described as being from the 1850s - 1860s, no longer standing In Academy Park, where the old Cherry Valley Turnpike diverged away from the old Seneca Turnpike (Seneca Street), is the bandshell, built in 1880 St. Ann's Church, a modern intrusion but interesting building fitted into an odd-shaped lot and not incompatible with the scale of the nearby historic buildings, was built in 1969 417 Seneca Street, stucco-covered limestone, the first wave of construction near 1813, originally commercial, now a residence 413 Seneca Street 411 Seneca Street Christ Episcopal Church, built during the first wave of construction in 1813, moved in 1832 from its original site atop the Seneca Street hill, with gothic elements added in the mid-19th century Modern extension of Christ Church replaced separate buildings at 405 and 407 Seneca Street (Note, the former buildings still show in Google satellite view photo as of January 2010) 316 Seneca Street, St. Ann's Convent, built in the 1850s - 1860s, Italianate style brick building 314 Seneca Street, St. Ann's Rectory, like 105 North Street, is a brick building with an oval window centered in its stepped gables and is three bays wide with two stories and a one-story two-bay wing with the first wave of construction near 1813 312 Seneca Street 310 Seneca Street 306 Seneca Street Smith Hall (the Masonic Temple), built 1813–16, the first wave of construction, third-floor added in 1824, brick buildings with stepped gables 301 Seneca Street Old Baptist Church, from 1827, Greek Revival style church built in the second wave of construction, has lost its steeple and been converted to commercial space Vasto Commercial Block, Greek Revival style commercial structure built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s 241 Seneca StreetThen, turning right on Franklin Street: 105 Franklin Street, brick Bell Telephone building, contemporary style modern intrusion built in 1970 108 Franklin Street 112 Franklin Street, the first wave of construction near 1813 113 Franklin Street, the first wave of construction near 1813Then, at Pleasant Street, beginning to the left and continuing to the right in an easterly direction: 211 Pleasant Street, a pilastered house with an off-center doorway and faced gable end to the street, was built in the first wave of construction near 1813 213-25 Pleasant Street 301 Pleasant Street 305 Pleasant Street 307 Pleasant Street 309 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s 311 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s 304 Pleasant Street 306 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s 308 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830sThen, at Pleasant Street and North Street, turn right onto North Street: First Baptist Church, a neo-Federal style brick church built in 1929, at the corner of Pleasant Street 117 North Street 113 North Street, a pilastered house with an off-center doorway and faced gable end to the street, built in the first wave of construction near 1813 106 North Street, no longer standing 105 North Street, the Wattles-Van Schaak-Barnes House, with a fruited pediment and narrow pilasters connected by flattened arches, the first wave of construction built near 1813, this one, like 314 Seneca Street, is a brick building with an oval window centered in its stepped gables and is three bays wide with two stories and one-story two-bay wingReturning to Pleasant Street and continuing east: 401 Pleasant Street 405 Pleasant Street 407 Pleasant Street 409 Pleasant Street 501 Pleasant Street, pilastered residence with centered front door and nearly flat roof, the first wave of construction near 1813Turning right on Clinton Street: 105 Clinton StreetAll photos in this article are from December 2009 unless otherwise noted.