Theodore Case - Legacy

Legacy

After Case's death, his summer home, Casowasco, was donated to the Methodist church by Case's widow, closing the history in Cayuga County of one of its founding families. It now functions as a conference center and is still named Casowasco.

With the profits earned from his sale of the Case Research Lab's invention of sound film to William Fox, Case built a new, 60 room home in Auburn that was, and is, the largest house in the city. The Case mansion is now used as a mental health facility.

The local library, known as Case Memorial-Seymour Library, still carries the family name and is housed in a building built from Case family donations. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1939, Case donated the property to a local group forming a history museum for Cayuga County, with the understanding that his lab on the property would be preserved. His wishes were all but ignored, but in the 1990s the Case Research Lab was restored to its original condition after being used as a painting studio for 40 years. The property is now operated as the Cayuga Museum of History and Case Research Lab Museum. Known as the Dr. Sylvester Willard Mansion, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.