Finch Block

60 E State St 
Taylor & Finch (James B. Taylor & Dudley F. Finch), Booksellers, News Dealers, and Stationers

Henry Howe, Lawyer, Justice of the Peace, 2d floor

H.D. Donnelly, Lawyer, 2d floor

Byron C. Howell, Lawyer, Insurance and Claim, 2d floor

Wood & Baker, Insurance, 2d floor

Robert Denmead, Clothing, 3d floor

John Parrott, Clothing, 3d floor

S. Lieberman, Barber, basement

Ithaca Journal Office, Ithaca, NY

From 1869 to1887 the 4th floor of the Finch Block housed the Kappa Alpha Society of Cornell. 

60 E State St 

Finch & Apgar (Dudley F Finch & George W Apgar), Books and Stationary, News Room 

John L Huck, Barber, basement

Norton & Conklin Publishers, Ithaca, NY

158 E State St 

Taylor & Carpenter, Book Sellers and Stationers, Wallpaper (James B Taylor Jr and Henry G Carpenter) 

Peter Emig, Barber and Bath Rooms 

Ithaca Street Railway Co (Edward G Wyckoff President,  Edward L Fuller Vice President, John A Mortimore Secretary and Treasurer), 

Brush-Swan Electric Light Co (E G Wyckoff President, E L Fuller Vice President, John A Mortimore Secretary and Treasurer) 

 

104 N Tioga St 

DeForest Van Vleet, Lawyer 

Ithaca Street Railway Co

Ithaca, NY

158 E State St 

Taylor & Carpenter, Booksellers and Stationers (James B Taylor and Henry G Carpenter) 

Peter Emig, Barber 

 

102 N Tioga St 

Clymer & Grattan, Lawyers (Paul K Clymer and Robert Grattan) 

Eastern Coal and Construction Co, Wholesale Coal and Construction, Paul K Clymer President 

Willard M Kent, Lawyer and District Attorney 

Raymond D Thurber, Lawyer 

 

104 N Tioga St 

Dudley F Finch

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

158 E State St 

Taylor & Co, Booksellers and Stationer (James B Taylor President, George E Houghton Vice-President, Grover C Barnum Secretary, Howard B Hollister Treasurer) 

Peter Emig, Barber and Bath Rooms 

Aaron G Mintz, Lawyer 

Lawrence M Mintz, Lawyer 

P W Wood & Son, General Insurance (Percy Woodmand Percy O Wood) 

 

102 N Tioga St 

Daniel E Marsh, Fire Insurance

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

158 E State St 

The Parisian, Ladies' Ready to Wear (President and Manager Morris E. Guttman; Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer Hyman J. Guttman) 

Peter Emig, Barber

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

158 E State St 

Pritchard's New Style Shop, Clothing Dealer  (Arthur J Pritchard and LeRoy W Pritchard) 

William J Savey, Barber 

Bernhard S Bohland, Dentist 

Erma D Perkins, Real Estate 

Marques School of the Dance

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

158 East State St. Historic name: Finch Block 

"Four-story, three-bay wide, five-bay deep, painted brick Romanesque commercial building at northwest comer of North Tioga Street; center entrance storefront with cast iron comer pilasters, frieze, and columns; upper stories retain round-arched windows with stone sills, cast iron window hoods with scrolled or floral stops, and historic two-over-two sash; cast iron rope moldings surround the window frames; on side elevation, arched windows in southernmost bay, but otherwise segmentally arched with cast iron hoods; entablature consists of brick frieze with recessed diamond motifs and arcaded corbels, dentils; scrolled metal brackets and comice under deep eaves. Built 1868. 

Architect: Frederick H. Moore 

Historical note: The Finch Block was built for James B. Taylor and has housed several bookstores and stationers since the 1860s. Dudley Finch and J.B. Taylor’s bookstore. Finch and Apgar Booksellers, Taylor and Carpenter, the Comer Book Store, and Profit Sharing Book Store have all occupied the site."

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004