The Alvord House in Fred Sehr Memorial Park at 399 Marsden Road in Syracuse's Lyncourt neighborhood is a fieldstone farmhouse built around the mid 1830s by Dioclesian Alvord, a prominent businessman in the Salina salt industry who had come from Farmington, Connecticut, in 1798 to join his brother Elisha, one of the area's pioneer salt manufacturers and merchants. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 for its significance in American rural agriculture as a domestic single dwelling dating from 1825 to 1849, the house was built of fieldstone with brick lintels, a gable roof, wood cornice, two inside end chimneys, and timber framing, and stood on a farm that in 1855 included a corn house, hog house, cider mill, ice house, milk house, two barns, woodland timber, springs of water, and land suited to gardening and dairying. After Dioclesian Alvord's death in March 1868, the fifty acre property was sold that December to John Hiller, then bought in the winter of 1875-76 by Brainard Brewster, whose son Arthur Judson Brewster later wrote reminiscences of childhood farm life there. Around 1898 Leonard and Lewis Falkner acquired the property and later sold it to Onondaga Pottery Company in the 1920's, after which the adjacent china plant was built and the house was rented to company employees for about forty years before being closed in the 1960's. In 1972 the Town acquired the property from Syracuse China Corporation for $1 and created Sehr Park, named for Fred Sehr, making it the first park in Salina's 4th Ward; the house remains one of the few surviving links to early nineteenth-century Salina and, along with the park, continues to serve the community for gatherings and other public and private uses.