Skaneateles Historic District

Skaneateles Historic District is the central business district and adjoining residential neighborhood of a lakeside village in Onondaga County, New York. It includes fifty-nine structures and a park along East Genesee Street, the adjacent block of Jordan Street, and an 1842 stone mill on Fennell Street. The west half is dominated by a continuous row of seventeen three- and four-story Greek Revival brick commercial buildings, erected in 1836 on the site of the earlier business center destroyed by fire in 1835. Across the street stand later shops, a bank with a clock tower, and a Romanesque Revival library of 1887. The east half holds early nineteenth-century houses, including several Federal-style homes, two masonry churches from 1873 and 1890, and Thayer-Austin Park, a former private garden given to the village in 1922. The district was listed for its well-preserved collection of buildings spanning 1796 to 1928, which together show how the village grew as a mercantile and manufacturing center.