South Salina Street Historic District

South Salina Street in south Syracuse was the main street of Danforth, a community that incorporated as a village in 1874 to avoid annexation by the city. The historic district covers three blocks and includes twenty-seven properties, among them dwellings, two churches, a commercial building and several carriage houses and garages. Construction ran from about 1855 to about 1924. Frame buildings with clapboard siding predominate, though brick, stone, concrete block and stucco also appear. Styles include the Gothic Cottage, the Second Empire Sumner Hunt Building with its polychrome slate mansard roof, the Italianate Phillips and Newell houses, the Eastlake Kirk House and the Tudor-style Kelley-Dunfee mansion. The Newell House, completed in 1872, is an early example of concrete block construction. Large lots, regular setbacks and tree-lined streetscapes give the street a consistent character. The boundary was drawn to include only properties that kept a high degree of architectural integrity.