128 Pleasant Grove Rd Ithaca

Obituary for Peter Kline
Ithaca Daily Journal, 27 April 1912, p.3, col. 4

  "Peter Kline, aged 88 years, who was city assessor for a number of years, and formerly owned a large portion of Cornell Heights, died at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon at his home on the Kline road.
  He is survived by one son, Arthur W., and one daughter, Bertha, with whom he resided. Mr. Kline was well-to do and had always resided in the town of Ithaca."

Name of Individual or Firm: Arthur W. Kline
Spouse/Family Relation: Marion
Business or Occupation: Farmer
Chief Crop or Specialty: Dairy
Property: Owned 80 Acres
Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: RD2 Ithaca
1914 AA Road Designation: H12
Current Road Name: Pleasant Grove Rd
Telephone: Bell telephone

Extract from Free Hollow to Forest Home, Chapter 3.  By Elizabeth Baker Wells and Liese Bronfenbrenner
Published by the Albert Force Memorial Fund, 1974.

"Sixty years ago this village was a perfect and almost unspoiled museum piece of the Greek Revival Period. Even the barns and out·houses were well designed, with fine panelled doors, moldings and cornice returns. First Mr. Cradit built himself a house where Peter Kline used to live — now occupied by Dr. Norman Moore. … Then a house was built for each of his workmen, which accounts for the harmony of the little cluster of houses and their fitness to their surroundings."

Cornell and Historic Ithaca seal deal to move 183-year-old home
The Ithaca Journal, Jul 27,1999, P. 2, with photo of Cradit-Moore House in its original location, in 1999.
 
"Cornell University will donate the Cradit-Moore House, a 183-year-old home, to Historic Ithaca, which will relocate it to one of two locations, officials from both entities announced at a joint press conference Monday.
  The announcement answers a question about the future of the house that has lingered since Cornell announced plans to put a soccer field where the house is located as part of the university's S65 million North Campus Residential Initiative.
  ...
  For more than a year, the university and the historic preservation group have been debating the fate of the Cradit-Moore House, a historic home built in 1816 by Isaac Cradit, one of the founders of Forest Home
  ...
  In the agreement, which is still being finalized, Cornell will donate the house to Historic Ithaca, donate a site for the house and provide up to 540,0000 to move it."

Moving the Cradit-Moore House, May 2000

"After much anticipation, Historic Ithaca begins the move of Forest Home’s historic Cradit-Moore house on Tuesday, May 23 [2000].  The move is from 128 Pleasant Grove Road on Cornell University’s north campus to a lot between 166 and 172 Pleasant Grove Road, approximately three-tenths of a mile north of its original location.  This two-story Greek Revival home, built in 1817, was originally owned by Benjamin Cradit, a local farmer and landowner.  The house had additions made to it, and underwent restoration and remodeling in the late 1930s.  The last private owner was Dr. Norman Moore, the first director of Cornell University’s health care system.  The house was sold to Cornell in 1946."

Cradit-Moore house move near completion
The Ithaca Journal, Jan 3 2001, P. 2, with photo of building in new location

"After many heated public hearings and much discussion by Town of Ithaca officials. Cornell gained approval in March for the project and agreed to donate the Cradit-Moore house to Historic Ithaca, provide land for the house under a 99-year land lease and the money necessary to relocate it.
  ...
  Scott Whitham, executive director of Historic Ithaca - the historic preservation agency that oversaw the Cradit-Moore house's relocation — said the house just needed some interior electric work done before new owners could move in.
  The two-story Greek Revival house sat at 128 Pleasant Grove Road for 183 years until this past May, when Historic Ithaca contractors moved it three-tenths of a mile down the road out of the Town of Ithaca and into the Village of Cayuga Heights."