111 Halcyon Hill

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Address
111 Halcyon Hill Ithaca
Year Built
1950
Building Type
Residence
Construction
1 story
Description
This one-story ranch type, all-steel dwelling, installed over a full basement, is a Lustron™️ Westchester 2-bedroom model.  Lustron built prefabricated steel housing intended for returning soldiers after World War II. This house features a low pitched gable roof and has a cutaway front porch with steel post and tripartite window groups with side crank windows. Inside there are built-in bookcases, cabinets and vanity. All interior and exterior wall surfaces (including the ceiling and roof) are enamel-coated steel.  The exterior color is "dove grey."

Pre-formed panels were transported on tractor trailers and assembled on site.  Assembly and associated construction were by Frank W. O'Connell, Binghamton.

A 2007 Lustron Survey performed for the New York State Historic Preservation Office identified 1950 as the building date and noted that the kitchen was remodelled in 2006 and the bathroom in 2007.

Included in Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000191. To access the Building-Structure Inventory Form (sometimes referred to as the "Blue Form"), and from which some of the details above come, follow these Lookup Instructions.  Also available from the same database location is the 2007 survey of this house, recorded on a NYS Lustron Survey Inventory Form.

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Map of Lots on Halcyon Hill, S. L. Boothroyd property
Forest Home, New York
Aug. 1912
Map is document BF023168-001 at Tompkins County Clerks Office.

Maps and deeds referred to are available from the Online Database Service of the Tompkins County Clerks Office by logging in as Guest, and searching for map or deed by Instrument (Document) Number, e.g., BF023168-001.

This map from August 1912 is of the initial subdivision plans by Samuel Latimer Boothroyd for the new area, known as Halcyon Hill, located off the road that was to become Warren Road.  The map laid out 8 lots.  Only seven house numbers were ever used, because Lots 6 & 7 were used for a single dwelling

Evidence for house numbers (as applied starting around 1952), using early sales deeds for the lots laid on Halcyon Hill in the 1912 map.
  • Lot 1 -- 104 Halcyon Hill -- BF091253-001 
  • Lots 2 & 3 combined -- 110 and 112 -- BF045021-001.  110 Halcyon Hill was built circa 1915 -- BF119076-001 DEED, Recorded 7/15/1964. Lot split between family members in 1989 roughly following original boundary between lots 2 and 3 -- 063132-001.  112 Halcyon Hill was built in Lot 3 circa 1989.  
  • Lot 4 -- 101 Halcyon Hill -- BF051277-001
  • Lot 5 -- 105 Halcyon Hill -- BF141951-001 
  • Lots 6 & 7 combined -- as 111 Halcyon Hill -- BF067499-001
  • Lot 8 -- 115 Halcyon Hill  -- The first house on this lot burned to the ground 11/25/1926. Later sales: BF061371-001, 012395-001 
Use document numbers, e.g., BF061371-001 or 012395-001 to search for digitized versions of the documents at the Tompkins County Clerks Office.