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Ithaca Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. The district consists of 64 contributing mostly commercial buildings. It is composed mainly of multi-story buildings with brick exteriors and flat or low-pitched roofs fronted by a variety of parapets set off by decorative cornices.
Boardman House, 120 East Buffalo Street, adjacent to DeWitt Park [3] Bank of Newburgh, 106 East Court Street [3] DeWitt Junior High School (1912 [3] or 1915 [9]), designed by William Henry Miller [3] (now DeWitt Mall) Williams-Fisher House, 306 North Cayuga Street [3] First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca (1901), designed by J. Cleaveland Cady [10]
Cornell Heights Historic District is a national historic district located in Ithaca, New York.The district contains 208 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It consists of an early 20th-century residential subdivision developed between 1898 and 1942, and originally conceived as a "residence park" for faculty members of Cornell University, directly north of the Fall Creek go
The Clinton House was originally built in 1828–1829 as an upscale hotel and Ithaca's first professional office building, with 150 rooms, an immense undertaking for the then 4,000-strong population of Ithaca. It was named for DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York from 1817 to 1822 and again from 1824 to 1827.
Roughly bounded by Cascadilla Creek, Eddy St., Six Mile Creek, and Aurora St., Ithaca, New York Coordinates 42°22′27″N 76°29′11″W / 42.37417°N 76.48639°W / 42.37417; -76
The house is located at 412 South Albany Street in the Henry St. John Historic District, not far from Downtown Ithaca. The building, occupying a corner lot, features a Second Empire style, which was popular in the United States when the house was built. With two main levels and a Mansard roof, the building has a complex floor plan.
GE's headquarters were in Schenectady, New York, to the northeast in the Mohawk Valley. Although Ithaca has a history of Ku Klux Klan activity, including a cross-burning in 1923 and 1924, "the peak years of Klan activity in Ithaca were 1923-1925" and it represented only a fraction of the population. [23]
Val-Kill was located on the banks of a stream that flowed through the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York. Eleanor and her business partners financed the construction of a small factory to provide supplemental income for local farming families who would make furniture, pewter, and homespun cloth using traditional craft methods.