{"nrhp_refnum":"91000109","name":"South Street Area Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Seward, William H., House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, South St. and adjacent properties from Metcalf Dr. to Lincoln St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Auburn","county":"Cayuga County","state":"NY","lat":42.92974223050007,"lon":-76.56175227236267,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear residential and institutional historic district in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, running about one mile north to south along South Street just south of the central business district. It holds 164 contributing and 18 non-contributing resources built mostly between 1800 and 1940.","why_significant":"The district is described as one of Auburn's most prominent residential neighborhoods, with large, architecturally distinguished houses, carriage barns, churches, and historic iron fencing. It shows the city's outward growth from its center through successive styles from Federal to Tudor Revival. It also contains the Seward Mansion, a National Historic Landmark since 1966.","narrative":"South Street Area Historic District is a one-mile linear neighborhood in Auburn, New York, beginning just south of the downtown business core. It remains largely residential and institutional, with big houses, generous lawns, mature shade trees, and a high survival rate of historic iron fencing. Its 164 contributing resources include residences, carriage barns, churches, apartment buildings, statues and monuments, dating from 1800 to 1940. The buildings trace Auburn's growth outward from the center: Federal and Greek Revival houses on Grover and William Streets, Italianate and Queen Anne houses near the middle, and Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival residences toward the south. Notable properties include the Seward Mansion, a National Historic Landmark, the Romanesque Revival Westminster Presbyterian Church begun in 1869, and the Case Mansion, a modified Tudor design from the late 1920s by a Boston firm. Newer churches, a telephone building and a motel are counted as non-contributing.","period_of_significance":"1800-1940","architect_builder":"Green and Wicks (Queen Anne houses at 85 and 88 South Street); Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott (Case Mansion, 108 South Street)","architectural_style":"Early Republic, Mid-19th Century, Late Victorian, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely still in residential and institutional use; several post-1940 buildings and altered historic properties are counted as non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.223697-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91000109.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000109/fbd7a04dc4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000109/fbd7a04dc4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auburn_City_Hall_Auburn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auburn_City_Hall_Auburn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316733","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Street_Area_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7568561"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cayuga-county/south-street-area-historic-district-91000109/"}