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Camillus Union Free School is a building built in 1912 and 1913 in the Village of Camillus, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The original two-story school building has a U-shaped plan. It was designed by architect Eugene Sacket of
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and was constructed in 1912 and 1913. A gymnasium was added in 1928 and an elementary-school wing was added in made in 1965. The original building was largely intact as of 1991, except for the loss of a cupola that was removed after a 1951 fire. The National Register listing includes the original building and the 1928 addition. The school was deemed architecturally significant as an example of a "small village school" built in the early decades of the 20th century.LaFrank, Kathleen, March 1991,
Camillus Union Free School
, National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination text, available fro
New York's State and National Registers of Historic Places Document Imaging Project
It is located at First and LeRoy Streets, across a field from Nine Mile Creek. Downstream is the
Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct is a restored stone and wood aqueduct of the Erie Canal over Nine Mile Creek in Camillus, New York, United States. It was built in 1841 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The towpath ...
, another Registered Historic Place.


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