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Cornell Free Library, Seneca and Tioga streets, 1864 to 1960. Tompkins County Public Library, 312 N. Cayuga Street, 1969 to 2000. Ithaca's first public library was founded by Ezra Cornell as the Cornell Free Library and chartered by the New York State Legislature in 1864. [5] Circulation began on March 4, 1867. [5]
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
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.
Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 [4] by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton [5] and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer Rascoff, a co-founder of Hotwire.com; David Beitel, Zillow's current chief technology officer; and Kristin Acker, Zillow's current ...
900 Stewart Avenue is a building in Ithaca, New York, noted for its Egyptian Revival architecture, its dramatic placement partway down a cliff, and being the residence of astronomer Carl Sagan. The building is on a ledge about 50 feet (15 m) below street level, overlooking Fall Creek and Ithaca Falls .
McGraw Tower is a masonry clock tower located on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.The tower was known as Library Tower when it was first built but was renamed in 1961 in honor of either John McGraw, one of Cornell's original donors, or his daughter Jennie McGraw, the philanthropist in whose honor the tower and its adjacent library were originally commissioned by Henry W. Sage.
Ithaca (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States.Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area.
Following the murder of Shawn Greenwood by the Ithaca Police Department on Feb. 23 2010, [7] members of the Ithaca community have renamed DeWitt Park to Shawn Greenwood Park. The new name aims to remember Shawn Greenwood, an African-American man who grew up in Ithaca, [7] and end the recognition of Simeon De Witt, a former slave owner. [8]