Willard - Case Mansion - Auburn
The Cayuga Museum is housed in the Greek Revival Willard-Case Mansion which was built in 1836. The museum is devoted to local history. Exhibits cover the early Native American culture, the Civil War, the Auburn Correctional Facility, Millard Fillmore and Women's Rights. You can see a Tiffany window, Bundy clocks and Victorian-era furnishings. This family home was based on the cornstarch fortune of Dr. Sylvester Willard, philanthropist and secretary of the Auburn Theological Seminary. Also on this site is the birthplace of talking movies. In 1924 Theodore Case and E.I. Sponable developed the first commercially successful sound film. They then partnered with Fox studios to create Movietone News ushering in the movie sound era. Behind the musem stands a simple low slung building known as the Case Research Lab which was opened in 1994 as part of the museum . Displays include the first sound camera and projector, original lab equiment, and Case's correspondence with Thomas Edison. It is located at 203 Genesee Street in Auburn, NY.
Willard - Case Mansion - Auburn
The Cayuga Museum is housed in the Greek Revival Willard-Case Mansion which was built in 1836. The museum is devoted to local history. Exhibits cover the early Native American culture, the Civil War, the Auburn Correctional Facility, Millard Fillmore and Women's Rights. You can see a Tiffany window, Bundy clocks and Victorian-era furnishings. This family home was based on the cornstarch fortune of Dr. Sylvester Willard, philanthropist and secretary of the Auburn Theological Seminary. Also on this site is the birthplace of talking movies. In 1924 Theodore Case and E.I. Sponable developed the first commercially successful sound film. They then partnered with Fox studios to create Movietone News ushering in the movie sound era. Behind the musem stands a simple low slung building known as the Case Research Lab which was opened in 1994 as part of the museum . Displays include the first sound camera and projector, original lab equiment, and Case's correspondence with Thomas Edison. It is located at 203 Genesee Street in Auburn, NY.