James and Lydia Canning Fuller House
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| Location | W. Genesee St., Skaneateles, New York |
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| Coordinates | 42°56′41″N 76°26′22″W / 42.94472°N 76.43944°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1815 |
| Architect | Thompson, Peter; Billing, John |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| MPS | Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 03000595[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 3, 2003 |
The James and Lydia Canning Fuller House in Skaneateles, New York is a historic house, which on three occasions was used as part of the Underground Railway.[2][3]
James Fuller married Lydia Charleton in 1815 in Bristol at the Friends Meeting House.[2] This was the same year as the house was built.[1]
James Canning Fuller was the secretary of the Skaneateles Anti-Slavery Society in 1838. He was a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 in London.[4]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- 1 2 James and Lydia Canning Fuller House, pacy.net, Retrieved 2 August 2015
- ↑ Darlene Bailey, Judith Wellman, and Bill Krattinger (May 2002). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York MPS Fuller, James and Lydia Canning, House. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Downloading may be slow.) - ↑ Delegate List, World Anti Slavery Convention, 1840
Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Federal architecture in New York (state)
- Houses completed in 1815
- Houses in Onondaga County, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Onondaga County, New York
- People from Skaneateles, New York
- American Quakers
- 19th-century Quakers
- Abolitionists from New York (state)
- Onondaga County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs




