National Register of Historic Places
Syracuse Lighting Company
Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York
The record
- Listed
- January 17, 2017
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 311 Genant Dr., Syracuse
- County
- Onondaga
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 43.05749, -76.15451
- Reference number
- 100000497
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The story
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The Syracuse Lighting Company is a building at 311 Genant Dr. in Syracuse, Onondaga County, built in 1893 and listed in the National Register in 2017. It has no distinct architectural style, though the nomination also notes Art Deco detailing.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in engineering, industry and architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1893 to 1954, spanning its 1893 construction and 1954 addition of training rooms and a stair tower.
Physical character
The building is brick and steel on stone, concrete and brick foundations, with a corbelled brick cornice and brick pilasters. Fire walls divide the interior into three sections, with massive stone piers and steel roof trusses throughout. After a 1910 fire damaged the office section, a new concrete building was raised in 1911 within the brick walls of the damaged building, and a 1971 renovation removed a mezzanine to build a full second floor.
Historical context
The company's first generating plant, built in 1883 on North Fulton Street, powered twenty-one street lights downtown, and by 1893 it was operating in this new building. It generated power from 1893 to 2003 while also serving as a corporate training center, and was vacated in 2003.