In the year 1855, Syracuse produced its last gasp of anything like a pure Greek idiom. This structure was built by Russel Hebbard, a brick manufacturer of wealth and a prominent Syracusan, who purchased the site in December 1854 from Moses D. Burnet (see page 156) for $1,600. At his death, the widow sold the property to the Keble School for $20,000. The years following must have held fond memories for the buildings for its walls housed the children of Syracuse's most refined and wealthiest citizens and through the slats of the fence capping, a stone wall, the less fortunate pressed their small faces.

Stoically accepting degradation, the Greek Revival has nevertheless returned in some of its finer forms. A correct pediment of fine cornice mouldings is broken by a Revival window, pilasters most remarkably adorn the second story, and most important, the deep set entrance is emphasized by extremely classic Ionic columns and a Doric entablature with the architrave or lowest panel strip dismissed as unimportant. Here in the frieze is to be seen an extraordinary feature of refinement. Between the triglyphs, which are now merely vertical lines, are to be seen circular medallions in direct duplication of the historic Persian shields once attached to the architrave of the Parthenon. Thus directly does the Greek Revival still speak; still alive is the classic spirit.

Figure one from Onondaga Historical Society