South Street Area Historic District

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.