Kline Rd Dorms, Town of Ithaca

Cornell Awaits Registration of More Than 9,000 Students; Housing Unit Turned Over to University.
The Ithaca Journal, Oct 10 1946, P. 3, Cols. 2-4

Extracts:
"Cornell University prepared today for the impact Friday and Saturday of registrations estimated at 9,200 -— far above any previous year.
Of this total 5,200 will be veterans of the armed forces.
   Rough estimates indicate that 2,200 will be returning Cornell veterans, 4,700 continuing students, 1,300 freshmen, and 1,000 graduate students.
...
  Temporary Housing to Be Used
  To house the students in excess of the usual prewar registration which rose to nearly 7,000 in 1941, temporary housing will be used. The Baker Dormitories barracks originally scheduled to house 496 students, will accommodate 645. All married veterans assigned to East Vetsburg and Tower Rd. projects will live at East Vetsburg without their families at present. East Vetsburg will take care of 200 veterans.
  Clara Dickson Hall, a permanent dormitory for women, will house 243 students, and capacities of other regular dormitories have been increased up to 20 per cent. Some students will be accommodated in Olin Hall and the Infirmary.
  The housing problem became more acute when fire Tuesday destroyed five units, designed to accommodate 60 men students each, on the Kline Rd. project. These units will be replaced, but temporary accommodations will have to be used for several additional months."

---separate article in adjoining column---
"Housing Unit Turned Over to University.
  In a brief ceremony on the steps of one of the barracks of the Baker Dormitory site at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, the eight barracks of that unit were officially turned over to University officials by the Border Constructión Company in the presence of FPHA officials.
  David M. Hannah, partner in the Border Construction Company, presented the contractual papers for the signature of Hugh E. Weatherlow, superintendent of buildings and grounds. The barracks were secured through the FPHA and erected here by the Border Company.
  Witnesses to the ceremony were J. Frank Savoye, chief building inspector for Region 2 of the FPHA; Benjamin J. Grene, FPHA bujlding inspector for the project; M. R. Shaw, manager of Cornell's Office of Residential Halls; and James W. Driscoll, general manager of veterans' housing at Cornell.
  The eight barracks were designed to accommodate 496 students, but because of the need for additional places because of the loss by fire of the Kline Rd. barracks, 645 will be housed during the present emergency by intensive doubling-up."

COMPLETION SALE: Ad. for building materials after demolition of old Kline Road Dormitories.
The Ithaca Journal, Apr 23 1955, P. 10, Col. 8
Ad. ran Apr 22 - May 10, 1955

"COMPLETION SALE-Old Kline Road Dormitories. Windows, doors, framing lumber, flooring, masonite, sheeting, roofers, plumbing and electrical supplies and fixtures. We are almost finished, and don't want to truck lumber to Elmira. Everything sold on premises. BIG SAVINGS! Salesmen on site. Mondays through Saturdays, 8-5:30. A. & T. WRECKING CO. Phone 3-1295. Let it ring!"

Work to start on apartments at University
The Ithaca Journal, Aug 19 1955, P. 5, Col. 1

"Construction of a 96-family apartment colony for Cornell married students will begin next week at the university.
  John E. Burton, Cornell vice president-business, said the project will have 12 one-story garden apartment buildings. It will be erected on the site of Pleasant Grove Rd. (formerly Kline Rd.) where war-surplus barracks for men students stood until their razing last spring.   Completion is expected by about the middle of the new academic year.
  Cost of buildings and equipment is estimated at $825,000. The development will be self-amortizing from modest rentals.
  The Pleasant Grove project will give the university permanent housing for married students for the first time. By last count Cornell had 936 married students out of an enrollment of 9,600 students on the Ithaca campus.
  Von Storch, Evans & Burkavage, architects and engineers, of Philadelphia and Waverly, Pa., did the design. Streeter Associates, Inc., Elmira, is the general contractor.
  The Pleasant Grove apartments will be in contemporary design, built of block with brick veneer and having moderately pitched roofs. Existing water and sewer installations from the temporary men's dormitories will be adapted.
  Of the 12 buildings, eight will be devoted to three-room apartments and four to the two-room type. Each building will house eight unfurnished apartments. There will be four laundries for the project. Area for play and appropriate landscaping are also planned.
  A two-room apartment will have a combination living-dining room with recessed and screened kitchen unit, and a bedroom and bath. The three-room apartment has two bedrooms.
  In planning the project, M. R. Shaw, director of Cornell residential halls, and members of his staff studied married-student housing communities at a number of midwestern campuses. James W. Driscoll, manager of housing in the residential halls office, will be in charge of the completed apartments. The opening of applications will be announced.
  The von Storch architectural-engineering firm did the design for a recent major alteration of the dining facilities in Willard Straight Hall at the university. Streeter Associates is contractor for the new GLF office building in downtown Ithaca.
  Searle H. von Storch, partner in the architectural firm, is a Cornellian of the class of 1923. James A. Norris, vice president of Streeter Associates, is a member of the university's class of 1925."

Note: This development would be called Pleasant Grove Apartments and would be available late in the Spring semester of 1956.