106 Cayuga Heights Rd Ithaca

Sigma Chi Lodge, 106 Cayuga Heights rd, Cay Hts

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Sigma Chi Lodge 106 Cayuga Hts rd Cay Hts

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Sigma Chi Lodge 106 Cayuga Hts rd Cay Hts 

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

The following information is from record for Greystone from the Cayuga Heights History Project:

"Greystone
106 Cayuga Heights Road
Year Built: 1913
Architect: John Van Pelt, New York City
  Teacher Daisy Sandidge (1877-1947), educated at Baylor College in Texas and at the University of Chicago, hired New York architect John Van Pelt to design a home in Cayuga Heights. Contractor William L. Jenks built the grand mansion in 1913.
  Sandidge shared the home with Alice G. McCloskey (1850-1915), assistant professor of rural education and the founding editor of Cornell's Rural School Leaflet.
  ​​Sandidge sold the home to McCloskey in 1914, and later moved to Evanston, Illinois. There, Sandidge was active in the League of Women Voters after the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote. Sandidge was elected alderman of the northern Chicago suburb in 1932, the first woman to be selected for this local government position. 

  McCloskey died in 1915, after a long illness. In a tribute to McCloskey, Liberty Hyde Bailey wrote of her last years spent at Greystone:
"Some time before her death Miss McCloskey came into possession of a residence of outstanding character which she and a friend had built in a joint plan. The Graystone House, against the woods and by the ravine beyond the Cornell campus, overlooking the lake and within reach of the chimes, is her spiritual as well as her physical monument. The great room, like a baronial hall, was for her guests and her chosen ones, with the rafters, the fireplace and the crane, the volumes along the side, the creek in the ravine near-by -- a poetic unity of to-day with yesterday and with to-morrow, a harmonious blending of good literature and music with the whirling activities of the day.I hope the Graystone house may long contain her spirit."
​Cornell Rural School Leaflet, Vol. X, Number 1, September 1916
  Greystone  played a role in early cinema history. It gained its first movie fame in 1918, when the home was featured in the film, A Romance of the Air. 
  ​Greystone is perhaps best known for its Jazz Age-era owners--Irene Castle (1893-1969), dancer and silent film star, and Robert E. Treman (1888-1953), scion of the prominent family in Ithaca's early business community.
  Irene starred in movies shot in Ithaca and was often photographed at Greystone in such magazines as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Town and Country.
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For photographs and additional information see the record for Greystone from the
Cayuga Heights History Project