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Alexander Brown House

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The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion built in 1895 of Potsdam sandstone with a Spanish tile roof. It was the home of Alexander T. Brown, an inventor and co-founder of Franklin Motors and the Brown-Lipe-Chapin Company, later absorbed into General Motors, who built engineering features into the house including a terra cotta shaped glass skylight, a hydraulic elevator running from basement to attic, and a house-wide vacuum system. Its 5,500-square-foot carriage house could hold up to ten cars and included a car lift. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
Richardsonian Romanesque mansion 1
Location
Syracuse, New York 1
Completed Year
1895 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Mansion 1
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Mansion, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Alexander Brown House (Wikipedia)

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1. Alexander Brown House (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia lead section (description)
    The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.
  • Wikipedia lead section (building type)
    The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.
  • Wikipedia lead section (location)
    The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.
  • Wikipedia lead section (completed year)
    The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion built in 1895 of Potsdam sandstone with a Spanish tile roof. It was the home of Alexander T. Brown, an inventor and co-founder of Franklin Motors and the Brown-Lipe-Chapin Company, later absorbed into General Motors, who built engineering features into the house including a terra cotta shaped glass skylight, a hydraulic elevator running from basement to attic, and a house-wide vacuum system. Its 5,500-square-foot carriage house could hold up to ten cars and included a car lift. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
  • In Style: Richardsonian Romanesque Architecture, Wikipedia lead section (style)
    The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.
  • Uses Element: Sandstone, Wikipedia lead
    The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.
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