The Alexander Brown House on Onondaga Street
There is a house at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse that tends to stop people.
The walls are Potsdam sandstone – dark, dense, rough-cut – and the roof is Spanish clay tile instead of the slate that every other house on the block would have used in 1895.
The building sits on close to eight-tenths of an acre, with a separate stone carriage house behind it that adds another 5,500 square feet…