Fayette Park

Postcard c1910

Fayette Park (now "Fayette Firefighters' Memorial Park") was once a wetland and wildlife area. As the village and then city of Syracuse grew around it, the area became a fashionable residential district hosting some of the finest homes in town -- the local equivalent of Washington Square in New York City. Today it remains the largest green space in the downtown area.
 

c1900

c1900

"Winter Night, Fayette Park, 1937"

Suffragette demonstration in Fayette Park

Detail, suffragette demonstration in Fayette Park

This is the view painter and SU professor Beatrice Wose-Smith had from her apartment window looking north into Fayette Park.

Beatrice Wose-Smith (American, 1908-1971), oil on canvas, 31 x 44 in., Wose-Smith Collection, Everson Museum of Art.

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c1900

Suffragette demonstration in Fayette Park

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