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37-568: The building, designed by Moses Chamberlain Edey , opened as the T. Lindsay department store on June 21, 1905 and was Ottawa's first department store. It was located at the prominent intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive . The building was the only Chicago Style structure built in Ottawa, and one of the few such buildings erected in Canada. Later owned by A.E. Rae & Co, it was expanded at

74-470: A female householder with no partner present, and 42.7% were non-families. 36.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.98. In the city, the population was spread out, with 22.8% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

111-650: A line primarily to carry anthracite coal from Athens, Pennsylvania through Auburn to wharves on Lake Ontario at Fair Haven . From 1818 to 1939, Auburn was home to Auburn Theological Seminary , one of the preeminent theological seminaries in the United States. In 1939, facing financial difficulties as a result of the Great Depression , the seminary moved to the campus of Union Theological Seminary in New York City . The only building from

148-662: A three- or four-person relay race involving running, cycling, and canoeing (or kayaking). The race begins and ends in the area of Owasco Lake on the southern outskirts of Auburn. With between 2,000 and 2,500 people participating in an average year, it is one of the largest relay races in the United States. The daily newspaper published in Auburn is The Citizen , which dates back to 1816, and had previously been published as The Daily Advertiser and The Citizen-Advertiser . It serves Auburn and Cayuga County, as well as other parts of Central New York . A morning paper, published seven days

185-488: A week, it has a circulation of 10,000 for the daily and Saturday editions, and 12,000 on Sunday. It is owned by Lee Enterprises . Possibly the two best-known historical figures associated with Auburn are Harriet Tubman and William H. Seward . Seward, who served as a New York state senator , the governor of New York , a U.S. senator , a presidential candidate, and then Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson , in which role he negotiated

222-454: Is Cayuga Community College , a two-year school. C.C.C., as it is known locally, is located on Franklin Street. The city had been the home of Auburn Theological Seminary , a Presbyterian institution established in 1818, which relocated to New York City in 1939. Auburn has had a long association with professional baseball . The Auburn Cayugas and other early Auburn teams played as members of

259-651: Is owned by the City of Auburn, is the parent organization of the Auburn Doubledays and its predecessor Auburn entries in the Class A short-season New York–Penn League dating back to 1958. The team plays its home games at Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park . Until 2020 they were members of the New York-Penn League . Since 1978, on the second Sunday of every August, Auburn has hosted "The Great Race",

296-519: Is water. US 20 is an important east-west highway passing through the city, and New York State Route 34 and New York State Route 38 are north-south highways that intersect US-20 in Auburn. Seneca Falls is 15 miles (24 km) west on US 20, and Syracuse is 26 miles (42 km) to the northeast via New York State Route 5 . This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to

333-610: The Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park , a National Historic Site and the Daly Building (1905–1992), which was Ottawa's first department store. His architectural styles were Gothic , Romanesque, and Beaux Arts, with the Daly Building a Chicago style . Edey had worked with Ottawa architect W.E. Noffke and Ottawa architect Francis Conroy Sullivan had once worked as a draftsman for Edey. Moses Edey

370-1048: The Auburn Button Works and Logan Silk Mills , the Belt-Gaskin House , Case Memorial-Seymour Library , the Cayuga County Courthouse and Clerk's Office , the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged , William and Mary Hosmer House , St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex , Sand Beach Church , Schines Auburn Theatre , Thompson AME Zion Church , Harriet Tubman Grave , Harriet Tubman House , the Old Post Office and Courthouse , Fort Hill Cemetery , Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church , and Dr. Sylvester Willard Mansion . The William H. Seward House and Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall are National Historic Landmarks , and

407-519: The Köppen Climate Classification system, Auburn has a humid continental climate , abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. As of the census of 2000, there were 28,574 people, 11,411 households, and 6,538 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,405.3 inhabitants per square mile (1,314.8/km ). There were 12,637 housing units at an average density of 1,506.0 per square mile (581.5/km ). The racial makeup of

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444-559: The League Alliance (1877), Central New York League (1888), New York State League (1889, 1897–1899), Empire State League (1906–1907), Canadian–American League (1938, 1940) and Border League (1946–1951). Auburn was an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox (1948). Today, Auburn is home to the Auburn Doubledays , members of the collegiate wooden bat Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League . In late 1901, Auburn became

481-677: The Ottawa School of Arts and held diplomas from the Ontario School of Art . He joined the Ontario Society of Architects. After studying design at the Ottawa Art School, he set up shop on Sparks Street Moses Edey married Mary Whillans from Russell, Ontario and had two children, Mabel Gertrude Mary Edey, and Isabel Maude Edey. Edey had building plans for Lansdowne Park , a fairground in Ottawa, with

518-581: The Underground Railroad . In 1859 Seward sold a plot of land to abolitionist Tubman, who used it to create a safe haven for her family and friends and other black Americans seeking a better life in the north. Seward's house is now a historical museum, and both it and Tubman's house are on the National Register of Historic Places . A number of properties in Auburn are listed on the National Register of Historic Places , including

555-399: The poverty line , including 23.9% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over. The Auburn Enlarged City School District is the public school system serving Auburn. It currently operates seven schools covering grades K–12. West Middle School was closed over the summer of 2011 to save funds, with the student population merged into East Middle School. The only college in Auburn

592-522: The 1860s Moses Edey had completed apprenticeships in architecture and building construction, as well as in carriage design and construction. He had moved to Arnprior at 17, where he worked in carriage making for two years, and two more in Ottawa in that trade. He then studied under Thomas in Toronto and went to Moravia, New York and studied under Z. D. Stearns During this time, he spent five years at

629-452: The 1867 purchase from Russia of Alaska , which became known as "Seward's Folly" – lived in Auburn from 1823 until his death in 1872, and was opposed to slavery . Seward's wife, Frances Adeline Seward , was deeply committed to the abolitionist movement, which was strongly supported in Auburn. In the 1850s, the Seward family opened their Auburn home as a safehouse to fugitive slaves on

666-575: The Auburn Theological Seminary that stands today is Willard Memorial Chapel and the adjacent Welch Memorial Hall on Nelson Street, designed by Andrew Jackson Warner of Rochester , with stained-glass windows and interior decoration by Louis Comfort Tiffany . It is the only complete and unaltered Tiffany chapel interior known to exist. In 1816, Auburn Prison (now the Auburn Correctional Facility )

703-730: The area. According to historian Robin Bernstein, the Sullivan Campaign and its soldiers destroyed "at least forty Native communities." After the war, Hardenbergh was granted a tract of land, Military Tract 47, from the very territory he fought to remove the Haudenosaunee from. Hardenbergh settled in the vicinity of the Owasco River on Military Tract 47 with his infant daughter and two enslaved African-Americans, Harry and Kate Freeman. After his death in 1806, Hardenbergh

740-529: The building posed a danger to the public, and could collapse under winter snow. The developers did not have the funds to do such an extensive project, and in a controversial decision the NCC chose not to look for a new partner and in September 1991 authorized the destruction of the building. This was the first designated heritage building destroyed in the city since the heritage guidelines were introduced in 1982. It

777-593: The centrepiece the Aberdeen Pavilion , which came to be known affectionately as the "Cattle Castle". The building survived despite sustained calls for demolition, and was rehabilitated. He also possibly designed: Auburn, New York Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York , United States. Located at the north end of Owasco Lake , one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York ,

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814-474: The city had a population of 26,866 at the 2020 census. It is the largest city of Cayuga County, the county seat , and the site of the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility , as well as the William H. Seward House Museum and the house of abolitionist Harriet Tubman . The region around Auburn had been Haudenosaunee territory for centuries before European contact and historical records. Auburn

851-410: The city was 88.57% White , 7.59% African American , 0.29% Native American , 0.57% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 1.41% from other races , and 1.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 2.82% of the population. There were 11,411 households, out of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.3% were married couples living together, 14.7% had

888-525: The city, controls the outflow of the lake, which is used for drinking water and recreation. The city is required to keep a sufficient amount of water in the river to deal with the effluent from its waste disposal treatment facility. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 8.4 square miles (21.8 km ), of which 8.3 square miles (21.6 km ) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km ), or 0.89%,

925-517: The headquarters of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL), which is now known simply as Minor League Baseball and based in St. Petersburg, Florida . John H. Farrell, who served as secretary-treasurer of the league for many years, was a local resident, and the league's offices remained in the city while he remained in that role. Auburn Community Baseball , which

962-488: The north end and two additional stories were added in 1913. H.J. Daly acquired the building in 1915. The Daly Building became a government office building in 1921 and served this role for many decades. Owned by the National Capital Commission (NCC), they had the cornice removed in 1964 after stone fell from it killing a pedestrian on the street below. The building was left unrenovated. In 1978 it

999-547: The prison continues to serve as a maximum security facility, and is one of the most secure prisons in the continental United States. Auburn is located at 42.9317° N, 76.5661° W at the north end of Owasco Lake , one of the Finger Lakes , which is drained by the Owasco Outlet  – also known as the Owasco River  – which runs north through the city on its way to the Seneca River . A dam, owned and operated by

1036-549: The red-brick Methodist chapel that still stands on Vanier Road, Aylmer. Artifacts from the Mayflower still exist, the possessions of the family of Moses' mother, whose ancestors journeyed on that famous ship. Following some time with the Casey Tool Company of Auburn, New York , he later worked for 10 years in design and construction in Ottawa under an A. Sparks. Thereafter, he concentrated on architecture. By

1073-621: The town of Aurelius , the settlement was renamed Auburn in 1805 when it became the county seat. It became an incorporated village in 1815, and was chartered as a city in 1848. It was only a few miles from the Erie Canal , which opened in 1825 and allowed local factories to inexpensively ship goods north or south. In 1871, the Southern Central Railroad, financed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad , completed

1110-408: Was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 30,281, and the median income for a family was $ 41,169. Males had a median income of $ 32,349 versus $ 23,330 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 17,083. About 12.5% of families and 16.5% of the population were below

1147-410: Was a hugely controversial decision in Ottawa, that drew much criticism of the NCC both for the years of neglect that let the building decline and for the final decision to demolish it. It was demolished piecemeal circa October 1991-March 1992. The Daly Building site remained vacant for more than a decade. There was much discussion of what would be built there; some advocated a park, and for a time there

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1184-493: Was a scheme to build a national aquarium on the site. Eventually, the NCC leased the site to a developer who erected an 11-storey luxury apartment building, which opened in 2004. 45°25′33″N 75°41′39″W  /  45.425828°N 75.694057°W  / 45.425828; -75.694057 Moses Chamberlain Edey Moses Chamberlain Edey (1845–1919) was an Ottawa architect who designed

1221-427: Was abandoned as unsuitable for office work. During the 1980s, the NCC tried to find a company that would restore the building, and in 1987 a Montreal firm was given a $ 45 million contract to restore the structure. However, when the building was examined it was found that portions were structurally unsound, and if it were to be restored large sections would have to be wholly rebuilt. Further studies found that if left alone

1258-610: Was born 1845 in the southwestern area of Quebec , Pontiac County near Shawville . He was the second son of six children of Richard and Mary Edey, descendants of United Empire Loyalists . The Edeys were part of the second wave of settlers to the Ottawa Valley, after Philemon Wright arrived in 1800 (the founder of Hull, Quebec ). Moses Edey came to Hull, Quebec from Randolph, Vermont , in 1805. Moses' father, Richard had been born in 1812 in Aylmer, Quebec . Moses designed

1295-602: Was buried in Auburn's North Street Cemetery, and was re-interred in 1852 in Fort Hill Cemetery ;– the first burial in the city's newly opened burial ground. The community grew up around Hardenbergh's gristmill and sawmill . Harry and Kate Freeman were eventually released by the Hardenbergh family, with Kate freed in 1805 before John Hardenbergh's death, and Harry seven months later by Hardenbergh's heirs. Originally known as Hardenbergh's Corners in

1332-541: Was founded as a model for the contemporary ideas about treating prisoners, known now as the Auburn system . Visitors were charged a fee for viewing the facility and its inmates. On August 6, 1890, the first execution by the electric chair was carried out at Auburn Prison. In 1901 Leon Czolgosz , assassin of President William McKinley , was executed there. Although the ideas of the Auburn System have been abandoned,

1369-817: Was founded in 1793, during the post-Revolutionary period of settlement of western New York. The founder, John L. Hardenbergh, was a veteran of the Sullivan-Clinton campaign against the Iroquois during the American Revolution . Members of the Haudenosaunee allied with the British during the American Revolution, and the Sullivan Campaign, ordered by the American military general George Washington , aimed to crush Haudenosaunee forces in

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