Statler Hall (Cornell University)
Details
- Name
- Statler Hall (Cornell University)
- Address
- 130 Statler Dr Ithaca
- Year Built
- 1951 (ca.)
- Building Type
- Public
- Construction
- not specified
Description
Street address from https://statlerhotel.cornell.edu/
Media (Photos, Videos, Audio Recordings)
Tax assessment photograph taken in 1954 for the purposes of government appraisal by Roy Wenzlick & Co. 1954
Add Source/NarrativeSources & Narratives
Davis and Johnson Study Restaurant Operation Courses
The Times Leader [Wilkes-Barre, PA], Jan 15 1953, P. 11
"Two Wyoming Valley young men, Clyde (Skipper) Davis III of Kingston and Harry W. Johnson of Ashley, are pictured in the December issue of American Restaurant Magazine and are also prominently mentioned in an article. titled "Restaurant Operators of Tomorrow." They are students at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. Davis is a sophomore and Johnson will become a sénior in February.
Statler Hall, where they pursue their studies, is one of the show places of the Cornell campus. The hall, erected two years ago at a cost of $2,500,000 through the benevolence of the late Ellsworth M. Statler, provides complete hotel and restaurant training facilities for hotel and restaurant students at Cornell. The hall includes a complete model hotel.
Clyde Davis is referred to in the article as the grandson of Percy A. Brown, operator of Percy A Brown Company and "a well known leader in National Restaurant Association affairs."
Harry Johnson is referred to as a student who wants to gò into some form of auditing or small restaurant work. He is an instructor in the accounting course. He is the son of Harry Johnson, secretary of Thompson Derr and Bro. Inc., which, incidentally, is the oldest insurance general agency in North America, one preparing to observe its 100th anniversary in 1958.
Davis is the son of Clyde Davis of the Percy A. Brown Company. the mother being the former Orceil Brown."
The Times Leader [Wilkes-Barre, PA], Jan 15 1953, P. 11
"Two Wyoming Valley young men, Clyde (Skipper) Davis III of Kingston and Harry W. Johnson of Ashley, are pictured in the December issue of American Restaurant Magazine and are also prominently mentioned in an article. titled "Restaurant Operators of Tomorrow." They are students at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. Davis is a sophomore and Johnson will become a sénior in February.
Statler Hall, where they pursue their studies, is one of the show places of the Cornell campus. The hall, erected two years ago at a cost of $2,500,000 through the benevolence of the late Ellsworth M. Statler, provides complete hotel and restaurant training facilities for hotel and restaurant students at Cornell. The hall includes a complete model hotel.
Clyde Davis is referred to in the article as the grandson of Percy A. Brown, operator of Percy A Brown Company and "a well known leader in National Restaurant Association affairs."
Harry Johnson is referred to as a student who wants to gò into some form of auditing or small restaurant work. He is an instructor in the accounting course. He is the son of Harry Johnson, secretary of Thompson Derr and Bro. Inc., which, incidentally, is the oldest insurance general agency in North America, one preparing to observe its 100th anniversary in 1958.
Davis is the son of Clyde Davis of the Percy A. Brown Company. the mother being the former Orceil Brown."
- Davis and Johnson Study Restaurant Operation Courses. The Times Leader [Wilkes-Barre, PA], Jan 15 1953, P. 11. From Newspapers.com [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-leader-clyde-skipper-davis-i/192706778/]
January 15, 1953