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Onondaga Highlands–Swaneola Heights Historic District

Buildings and structures in Syracuse, New YorkHistoric districts in Onondaga County, New YorkHistoric districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)NRHP infobox with nocatNational Register of Historic Places in Syracuse, New York
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The Onondaga Highlands–Swaneola Heights Historic District is a historic district in the Strathmore neighborhood of Syracuse, New York. The historic district was nominated to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2009. The New York State's Board of Historic Preservation described the district as "'a turn-of-the-20th-century subdivision where the rolling topography, uniform building setback and popular residential styles form a cohesive neighborhood that retains its architectural integrity.'"It includes at least three previously NRHP-listed houses designed by Ward Wellington Ward: Dunfee House (Syracuse, New York) at 206 Summit Fairchild House (Syracuse, New York) at 111 Claremont Ave. Sanford House at 211 Summit

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Onondaga Highlands–Swaneola Heights Historic District
Stolp Avenue, City of Syracuse

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Stolp Avenue 123
13207 City of Syracuse
New York, United States
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Alexander Brown House
Alexander Brown House

The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895. It was the home of Alexander T. Brown, inventor and co-founder of Franklin Motors and the Brown-Lipe-Chapin Company, a firm that was absorbed into General Motors.Brown was a successful inventor and manufacturer. His specialty was transmissions adapted from bike chain derailleurs, but is also known for inventing the shifting carriage that allowed typewriters to have multiple cases or fonts, patented a breech loading shotgun that became Hunter Arms and as any inventor would he added technology into the house. He added such engineering features to the house as a terra cotta shaped glass tile-covered skylight to bring natural light into the attic, a basement to attic hydraulic elevator, and a house-wide vacuum cleaning system.The 5,500 sf carriage house is known to have held up to ten cars and had a car lift installed so that the projects he was working on could be brought up and out of the cold and into his workshop where his drivers were often known to have lived and assisted. He held the largest collection of military weaponry in private hands during his day and was also known to have kept a live bear in what was once a stable for the horses who once pulled his carriages from the carriage house behind the main house on West Onondaga Street. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.