This building was burned but not destroyed in the fire of 1871 (August 28, 1871).
Newspaper articles about the fire in the Ithaca Journal note this was "a large brick building occupied by A.S. Cowdry as store and show room for his ready made carriages &c., the upper stories was used as a manufacturing and paint shop." "An Alarming Fire! The Upper Part of the Town in Ruins! $250,.000 Worth of Property Destroyed!" Ithaca Journal, August 29, 1871, 2.
Address:
From 1864 city directory: A.S. Cowdry Carriage and Wagonmakers 5 and 7 S Aurora.
From 1867 city directory: Adam S Cowdry, Carriage Manufacturers, 17 and 19 S Aurora.
From 1870 city directory: A.S. Cowdry, Carriage and Wagon Makers, 17 and 19 S Aurora.
From 1872 city directory: no work address for Adam S. Cowdry
(the building numbers on this part of the street seem to be odd at this point)