{"nrhp_refnum":"88002754","name":"Onondaga County War Memorial","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 Madison St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Syracuse","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":43.04686579400004,"lon":-76.15103993299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-12-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A multi-purpose auditorium and memorial building filling a full city block at 200 Madison Street in downtown Syracuse, New York, designed by Edgarton and Edgarton with Ammann and Whitney as consulting engineers and built between 1949 and 1951.","why_significant":"The Statement of Significance is truncated, so the argument is only partly visible. The description and an included expert letter present it as a distinguished example of early concrete-shell construction, with a 160-foot rib-and-shell vault carried on cantilevered brackets. It is also a Moderne-style war memorial honoring Onondaga County's war dead, and its interior and exterior are described as highly intact.","narrative":"Occupying an entire downtown Syracuse block, the Onondaga County War Memorial is a Moderne auditorium built between 1949 and 1951 and dedicated to county residents who died in the World Wars. Edgarton and Edgarton designed it with technical help from Ammann and Whitney. A barrel-vaulted concrete shell roof, spanning 160 feet without interior supports, rises over the central hall, which is wrapped by two-story blocks faced in Indiana limestone and tan brick. Carved bands on the exterior name 55 battles of the two wars. Inside, Memorial Hall holds bronze tablets, plaques and two murals by Syracuse artist G. Lee Trimm, while display cases hold the names of about 50,000 county veterans. The auditorium seats between 2,000 and 9,000 people and can be converted to an ice rink. Its innovative construction, which rests on steel-pipe piles driven through soft clay, and its remarkably intact condition support its recognition as an important work of early concrete-shell design and civic commemoration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edgarton and Edgarton, Architects and Engineers' Associates; Ammann and Whitney, Consulting Engineers (technical assistance); H. Vincent Edgarton supervised construction","architectural_style":"Modern Movement/Moderne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as completely intact with minor deterioration, chiefly water infiltration and spots of limestone damage; it continues in use as an auditorium.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.675563-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002754.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002754/b20e78f0da-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002754/b20e78f0da-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onondaga_County_War_Memorial_side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onondaga_County_War_Memorial_side.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"14000193","name":"South Salina Street Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/south-salina-street-downtown-historic-district-boundary-increase-14000193/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320410","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_Medical_University_Arena","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/onondaga-county-war-memorial-88002754/"}