{"nrhp_refnum":"81000662","name":"Central Technical High School","other_names":["Central Tech"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"700-745 South Warren St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Syracuse","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":43.04219143300003,"lon":-76.15021588999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick and limestone high school on South Warren Street at Adams Street, on the southern edge of downtown Syracuse, New York. Archimedes Russell designed it in 1899-1900 and it opened in 1903.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of Neoclassical style applied to an educational building. It reflected the newest early twentieth-century ideas on school design, including fire resistance, sanitation, central services and modern workshops and laboratories. Albert Brisbane's 1931 south addition and Lincoln Auditorium are noted as compatible with the original building and architecturally notable. It is described as the most architecturally significant of Syracuse's city schools.","narrative":"Central Technical High School is a three-story, light brown brick school with Indiana limestone trim on the southern edge of downtown Syracuse, facing Billings Park. Archimedes Russell designed it in 1899-1900, and it opened in 1903. Its symmetrical Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts design includes a pedimented portico with Ionic columns. Russell visited schools in several other cities and planned a fire-resistant, well-lit building with laboratories, technical workshops and central services. In 1930-31, state architect Albert Brisbane added a compatible south wing and replaced the original auditorium with the 2,000-seat Lincoln Auditorium, which has Art Deco details and acoustical plaster. A 1959 addition was excluded from the listing. The school served until the 1960s, when a new high school replaced it. Many of the city's civic leaders graduated there, and it once hosted Syracuse Symphony concerts. At the time of listing it stood vacant, and the city was seeking a new use.","period_of_significance":"1900-1903","architect_builder":"Archimedes Russell","architectural_style":"Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant at the time of nomination; school use ended in the 1960s. Performing arts groups have used the stage for rehearsal and storage, and the city is seeking a new use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.881633-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/81000662.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000662/a82d560a73-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000662/a82d560a73-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CTHS_Syracuse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CTHS_Syracuse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320318","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Technical_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5061897"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/central-technical-high-school-81000662/"}