Hawley-Green Street Historic District

Hawley-Green Street Historic District occupies part of Syracuse's near northeast side and holds about fifty mostly residential buildings along Hawley and Green Streets and nearby McBride, Howard and Lodi Streets. Nearly every popular style from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries appears, from modest Greek Revival cottages of the 1840s and 1850s to the Italianate Beadle houses, a Queen Anne mansion with a cylindrical tower built in 1890, a Romanesque double residence, and a Second Empire house. Greenway Place, built in 1882 on the site of a brewery, began as fourteen individually sold Second Empire units and later received Tudor facades. The area grew with Irish, German and native-born settlers from the 1850s, and streetcar and trolley lines encouraged professionals to settle along Green Street. Its mix of rowhouses and mansions shows a range of income groups. Decades of apartment conversion and deterioration have left many buildings altered, yet the district remains one of the few intact residential areas on the northeast side, and recent restorations show renewed local interest.