{"nrhp_refnum":"10000303","name":"Sabine, William H., House","other_names":["Locust Lawn"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9 Academy Green","address_restricted":false,"city":"Syracuse","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":43.00074550900007,"lon":-76.14974883799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Federal-style brick house known as Locust Lawn, built around 1812 on a 4.51-acre parcel at 9 Academy Green in the Valley section of Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, with a barn, summer kitchen and tenant house on the property.","why_significant":"It is argued to be one of the oldest residential properties in present-day Syracuse and was the home of William Sabine, an early settler, and his twin sons, who were connected with the anti-slavery movement. It is also an important example of Federal architecture with a regional Central New York feature: a facade divided into bays by projecting pilasters and arches.","narrative":"Locust Lawn, the William H. Sabine House, is a two-story Federal-style brick residence built around 1812 at 9 Academy Green in the Valley section of Syracuse. It sits on 4.51 acres, the remainder of a tract of more than 100 acres bought by William Sabine soon after he arrived around 1800. The three-bay north facade has projecting pilasters capped by arches, a stepped parapet and an elliptical louvered window, a treatment typical of Central New York buildings along early turnpikes and the Erie Canal. Inside are a curved staircase and Federal woodwork. A barn, summer kitchen, stone wall and a noncontributing tenant house remain. The house is significant as one of the oldest residential properties in the city and for its Sabine family associations. Sabine's twin sons, William and Joseph, were tied to the anti-slavery movement, including an 1843 abolition meeting in the front yard and Joseph's role in the 1851 Jerry Rescue. It remains a single dwelling.","period_of_significance":"c.1812-c.1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; historic windows have been replaced, and the house was a nursing home after it left the family in 1944.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.904639-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000303.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000303/2562ba916e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000303/2562ba916e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sabine_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sabine_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320429","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Sabine_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8002407"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/sabine-william-h-house-10000303/"}