The Babcock-Shattuck House (also known as the Jewish War Veterans Post) is a prominent house at the corner of East Genesee and Westcott Streets in

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Description and history

The

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house was built in the mid-1890s to be the home of Dr. Archer D. Babcock, a founding member of the Crouse-Irving Hospital. It was Babcock's home until 1913. Beginning during World War II, it was a post of the

Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America (also referred to as the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., the Jewish War Veterans, or JWV) is an American Jewish veterans' organization created in 1896 by American Civil War veterans to rais ...

. They converted the second floor into a large meeting room. During the tenure of this organization, the house played an important role in the Jewish community of Syracuse. an
''Accompanying 12 photos, exterior and interior, undated but likely from December 2003''
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It was listed on the

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on May 12, 2004.

References

External links

Photo of "Former Jewish Home", at SyracuseThenAndNow
* ttp://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/syracuse_historic_house_renova.html/ Tim Knauss, "Finally, renovation begins at historic house on Syracuse's East Side" (Jan 14, 2013)br>Samuel D. Gruber, Renovation of Babcock-Shattuck House (former Jewish War Veterans' Post) Begins (Jan. 15, 2013)
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