Reflection from the Fourth Floor

Four Historic Buildings in a Glorious Sunset

From back to front, left to right: the Niagara-Mohawk or NiMo Building; the former main US Post Office on Clinton Square; Soldiers and Sailors Monument within Clinton Square; and the Syracuse Savings Bank, also on Clinton Square. The top three floors of that last are to be made into luxury apartments within the next months.

Historic Postcard: Junction of Erie and Oswego Canals, Syracuse, N.Y. and Modern Remnants

Facing west near the corner of Erie Blvd. and Warren St. The Oswego Canal diverged north along the present first two blocks of N. Warren St.

Also note the addition of a brick face to the back of the Syracuse Savings Bank, replacing the adjoining wall lost when the building next door was torn down.

Clinton Block by Hall Groat, Hangs in the Syracuse Savings Bank: Detail of a Carriage Crossing the Old Erie Canal

Syracuse Savings Bank

The Syracuse Savings Bank is described here:  

http://syracusethenandnow.org/Architects/Silsbee/Drawing_on_Banks.htm

Syracuse Savings Bank Building

The Syracuse Savings Bank Building was built in 1875. Two canals, the Erie and the Oswego, met near a corner of the building.

Appropriately, another name for High Victorian Gothic style is Venetian Gothic although Syracuse does not resemble Venice except perhaps at that moment in history, at that corner.

I get much of my information about historical Syracuse architecture from Evamaria Hardin's Syracuse Landmarks, first edition 1993, for which I am very grateful.