With this house the early traditions were extended. In common with the Fairchild House, the facade is divided by pilasters, now capped with the Roman Doric order, and the gables remain inconspicuously on the ends. The smooth clapboards, characteristic of both Adam and Greek Revival treatment, are again utilized. From here there is a wide variance, chiefly due to the nicely proportioned side wings and the direct beginning of a full entablature. The windows, too, have acquired a new perfection. The porch is an unfortunate feature of the Victorian period.

It is difficult today to isualize this structure on the site of the present Chimes Building in the midst of downtown Syracuse, but in 1820 South Salina Street was a corduroy road, this house a tavern-boarding house. To the south was but a dense forest. Capt. Andrew N. Van Patten, who had a packet boat line on the Erie Canal, built the house only to lose it in 1829 on an election bet and it eventually became the home of Samuel B. Larned. Shortly after the view opposite was taken in 1880, the structure was moved to South Clinton Street where it became the boyhood home of Howard R. Garis, writer of "Uncle Wriggly" stories. With its razing in 1930, Syracuse lost much of her early heritage.

Figure 1 courtesy of Mr. E. Q. Williams