Reverting once again to residential developments, we find this aggrandizement of the box house following the traditions of the Burnet Home on page 158. Once the center of gracious hospitality on Fayette Park, it was the home of the younger of the two prominent White brothers, owners of the Voorhees House and other large buildings of Syracuse, who came to Syracuse from Cortland County in 1839.

The building is outstanding in many ways. Notice the pure Greek Revival details of Ionic oolumns with accompanying punctilious Ionic details of architrave, frieze and cornice, and the full entablature broken by attic windows which are filled with exquisite grillwork very similiar to that on the Leavenworth Mansion (page 139). The stone window jambs, thin mullions, and capping cornice are unusually fine, too, with the typical rear wing completing the display.

The beginning snowball of changing features is nevertheless prominent, particularly in the small front porch replacing a full colonnade with columns reduced to a single story and in the growing importance attached to the cupola of a thoroughly non Greek design - a common,feature on the eastern seaboard at this period. Despite forebodings, however, the Hamilton White house remains as one of the finer offsprings of the Greek Revival.