South Peterboro Street Residential Historic District

South Peterboro Street in Canastota, Madison County, is lined with large houses and two churches built between about 1850 and 1930. The eight-acre district takes in 32 properties on two blocks of the street and two on Terrace Avenue, most of them wood-frame buildings on broad landscaped lots under mature street trees. Greek Revival houses from the 1850s and Italianate houses from the 1860s and 1870s were followed by Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes, many with their original carriage houses or garages. Anchors include the brick and stone First Baptist Church of about 1873 and the Carpenter Gothic Trinity Episcopal chapel of about 1885. The street was laid out early in the nineteenth century, settled at mid-century, and became a fashionable address as the Erie Canal and the railroad brought prosperity. Nearby streets have lost much of their historic character, so this section is the village's most intact residential grouping. One house, at 318 South Peterboro, is tied to the Rasbach family, namesake of Rasbach Street.