page_title: Geddes, New York
section_title: Institutions
hierarchical_section_title: Geddes, New York / History / Institutions
caption_attribution_description: English: Syracuse State Idiot Asylum on Wilbur Avenue circa 1906
context_page_description: Geddes is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 17,118 at the 2010 census.
  The Town of Geddes is west of the neighborhood of Far Westside of Syracuse. The town is a western suburb of Syracuse.
context_section_description: The New York State Asylum for Idiots was located in the eastern section of town, near the original border with Syracuse on Geddes Street. The facility was located on Wilbur Avenue on the southeast border of Tipperary Hill. The site selected was about a mile southwest of Syracuse, in the town of Geddes, and was "one of the finest that could have been found in the State of New York." The building was constructed of brick, "plain but substantial, and admirably fitted for the purpose for which it is designed."
  The institution was located upon the eastern slope of the range of hills in the western part of the city and about 1-1/2 miles south of the head of Onondaga Lake. The asylum grounds covered an area of about sixty-five acres, immediately adjacent to Burnet Park, the most of which was high land, overlooking the city and lake. The principal group of buildings, which were clustered around the original structure, facing the western extremity of Seymour Street, accommodated about 450 individuals.
caption: Syracuse Idiot Asylum on Wilbur Avenue in Syracuse, New York in 1906
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