Hanover Square, Syracuse
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Hanover Square Historic District
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| Location | 101--203 E. Water, 120--200 E. Genesee, 113 Salina, 109--114 S. Warren Sts., Syracuse, New York |
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| Coordinates | 43°3′1.22″N 76°9′4.1″W / 43.0503389°N 76.151139°WCoordinates: 43°3′1.22″N 76°9′4.1″W / 43.0503389°N 76.151139°W |
| Area | 0.109 acres (0.00044 km2) |
| Built | 1834 |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Second Empire, Romanesque, Federal |
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| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1976 |
Hanover Square in Downtown Syracuse, New York, is a triangular-shaped public park located at the intersection of Warren, Water, and East Genesee streets. The triangle was originally named Veteran's Park.
The name may also refer to the larger Hanover Square Historic District which includes seventeen historic buildings in the area that was the first commercial district in Syracuse. In the warm weather months, entertainment is common on the plaza around the fountain. Workers in the surrounding office buildings and retail establishments often lunch there.
The public square was originally named Veteran's Park. It was renamed to Hanover Square after the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument was dedicated in Clinton Square in 1910 and the function of commemorating Syracuse's war dead was shifted there.
The triangular shape of the park came as a result of the city's new grid street system in the early 19th century which was "superimposed on the diagonal route" of early Genesee Turnpike (now known as Genesee Street).
The larger, Clinton Square, the city's town center located to the west, had developed first, however, following the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, commercial and retail activity spread along Genesee Street to Hanover Square.
When Syracuse was still a village, the village well was located in Hanover Square.
In the 1820s, a group of shops called the Hanover Arcade were located where the State Tower Building now stands.
The buildings on Water Street were backed by the Erie Canal, and were known as “double-enders.” This facilitated the unloading of goods from barges on the canal. Civil War recruiting booths were set up in the square, and were made into a huge bonfire at the end of the war.
The first buildings in the square were a church and several wooden structures which were both residential and commercial.
In March 1834, the area was devastated by fire which destroyed all the buildings on the north side of the square, next to the canal. That same year, the buildings were replaced with narrow, brick structures in the Federal style of architecture and known as the Phoenix Buildings four of which still stand today on the northern edge of the square.
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