The historic village of Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, rises on a hill above the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. The village was named by Captain Benjamin Ledyard, who settled there in 1793, in the post-Revolutionary development of the Finger Lakes region. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, Aurora played an important part in the history of Central New York.
Sherwood is a hamlet in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
Cayuga County Courthouse and Clerk's Office is a historic courthouse complex located at 152 Genesee Street in Auburn, New York. It consists of a two building government complex. The courthouse was built in 1835–1836 to a design by John I. Hagaman in the Greek Revival style, employing a massive Greek Doric order. It was rebuilt and expanded in 1922–1924 after a fire destroyed everything but the front and side walls of the original building. The rebuilt courthouse, designed by Carl Tallman and Samuel Hillger, is a 2+1⁄2-story, Neoclassical temple-fronted stone building incorporating Hagaman's monumental portico. Attached to it is the 1882 County Clerk's Office building, designed by Green and Wicks in the Late Victorian Italianate style.
The House at 17 Aurora Street in the village of Moravia, Cayuga County, New York, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The House at 18 Aurora Street in the village of Moravia, in Cayuga County, New York, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The House at 20 Aurora Street in the village of Moravia in Cayuga County, New York is a historic house listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a two-story, vernacular frame dwelling constructed about 1840, with an extension to the ell added about 1860. Also on the property is a two-story Greek Revival style carriage house probably added about 1850.
The House at 21 West Cayuga Street in the village of Moravia in Cayuga County, New York is a historic home. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, frame dwelling with a 1-story rear wing. It was probably constructed between 1810 and 1830 as a vernacular interpretation of Federal style residential architecture.
The House at 31 West Cayuga Street in the village of Moravia in Cayuga County, New York is a historic home. It is a 2-story, frame, Greek Revival-style dwelling with a 1+1⁄2-story rear wing. It was built about 1840.
The House at 37 West Cayuga Street in the village of Moravia in Cayuga County, New York is a historic home. It is a two-story, frame, Italianate style residence. The property contains the house, built about 1880, and a board and batten carriage house, probably built about 1870.
Sager House is a historic home located at 12 West Cayuga Street in the village of Moravia in Cayuga County, New York. It is a 2½-story, frame, Queen Anne–style residence, with a cruciform plan. The house was built in 1884. Also on the property is a 2-story, frame carriage house. It was built by carpenters/construction managers James Patten and James Harris.
William and Mary Hosmer House is a historic home located in Auburn in Cayuga County, New York. It is a two-story, three-bay, side hall frame house in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It is believed to have been built in the 1840s and enlarged sometime after the conclusion of the Civil War. The house was owned by anti-slavery editor and author William Hosmer.
Peter Yawger House is a historic home located at Union Springs in Cayuga County, New York. It was built in 1838–1840 in the Greek Revival style on the east shore of Cayuga Lake. It consists of a 1+1⁄2-story, five-by-three-bay, brick gable-roofed main block, with a 1-story, gable-roofed kitchen wing. The front portico is supported by four massive fluted Ionic columns.
The Almeron Durkee House is a historic house located at 13 Cayuga Street (NY-90) in Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York.
Charles Howland-William H. Chase House is a historic home located at Union Springs in Cayuga County, New York. It was built about 1840 and is a remarkably intact two-story, five-bay, center-hall limestone dwelling in the Greek Revival style. Attached to the main block is a large two-story rear wing creating an L-shaped house. Also on the property is a stone barn, stone shed, and stone smokehouse.
William Richardson House is a historic home located at Union Springs in Cayuga County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a remarkably intact late Federal / early Greek Revival–style farmhouse. It is a 2-story, three-bay brick dwelling main block with a 1+1⁄2-story side ell and 1+1⁄2-story rear wing. Also on the property are four late-19th-century / early-20th-century barns.
Augustus Howland House is a historic home located at 1395 Sherwood Road in Sherwood in Cayuga County, New York. It is a "distinctive high-style Italianate" dwelling built about 1850. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, six bays wide and three bays deep, heavy timber frame dwelling, topped by a low pitched hipped roof. It is sheathed in clapboard and features a two bay wide front pavilion. Included in the listing are four contributing barns, a laundry building, and two hitching posts.
Orrin W. Burritt House is a historic home located at Weedsport in Cayuga County, New York. It is a fashionable Italianate / Queen Anne style dwelling built about 1876. It consists of a large, essentially rectangular, two story frame main block. Notable features of the building include broadly projecting eaves supported by elaborate scroll brackets, dentils and modillions; large windows surrounded by elaborate wood trim; an imposing verandah with a wealth of Victorian-inspired ornamentation; and a Colonial Revival style porte-cochere added about 1912. Also on the property is a carriage house built about 1876.
Benjamin King Woodhull House is a historic home located at Wading River in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1750, and is two story, side hall type dwelling of wood-frame construction with secondary extensions to the south and east. Also on the property is an outhouse.
Hutchinson Homestead is a historic home located at Cayuga in Cayuga County, New York. It was built about 1910 and is a two-story, five-bay, center-hall frame dwelling in the Colonial Revival style. It is surmounted by a low-pitched gambrel roof pierced by four brick chimneys.
Mary Amy Otis (1863–1950) was an American miniaturist.
