In his new book, “The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street,” historian Dennis Connors takes his readers back to a time of stately mansions, gardens and carriage houses on the Salt City’s most fashionable road.
From the 1890s to 1930s, James Street was a source of Syracuse pride, a “lovely residential haven,” Connors wrote, and a respite from the “gritty businesslike neighborhood of canal-side Syracuse.”
It was Syracuse’s “Fifth Avenue.”…