222 S Albany St Ithaca

Between 1899 and 1901, 220 S Albany St became 222 S Albany St (see the 1899 and 1901 city directories).
The 1899 city directory lists Clarence Peirce at 220 S Albany and the 1901 city directory lists Mrs. Emma Peirce at 222 S Albany St.

Source: Henry St. John Local Historic District Nomination, Sara Johnson and Kristin Olson, Historic Ithaca, Inc., 2012.
Description:
222 South Albany Street is located mid-block on the west side of South Albany Street, one of four adjacent mid-block lots that extend further west than other lots on the block. The two-and-a-half story house was built ca.1899 in a transitional Colonial Revival-Free Classic Queen Anne style. It is rectangular in plan with a two-story recessed wing projecting to the west. The house has a hipped roof with overhanging eaves above a wide cornice. A cross gable projects to the north, a hipped roof dormer projects to the south, and there is a prominent center gable dormer on the east, primary, façade. Walls are clad in clapboard with decorative classical pilaster corner boards. A large brick chimney runs up the exterior of the north façade through the center of the cross gable. Windows are primarily 1/1, with shorter upper sash. The house sits on a stone foundation.
The primary façade is asymmetrical, with a partial-width, flat roofed porch covering the entrance. The porch has Doric-style posts and a simple balustrade with curved top rails. The front door is flanked by sidelights. On the second story, a bay window is located directly above the door. The second story overhangs a cutaway bay that wraps around the north corner of the first story. A metal fire escape leads from the front-gabled dormer to the roof of the front porch. The north façade cross gable has cornice returns in the gable. The second story is recessed from the wide cornice, creating a small porch on the east side of the chimney that overhangs the first story bay below. The porch has Doric-style posts and a simple balustrade. West of the chimney on the first story, two one-story, flat-roofed, single-bay enclosed porches project to the north.
A narrow driveway leads to the four-bay, hipped-roof, clapboard-clad automobile garage at the northwest corner of the lot.
Significance:
Contributing. Architecturally significant. Garage contributing and architecturally significant.
222 South Albany Street is architecturally significant as an example of a transitional house combining elements of the late Free Classic Queen Anne style and Colonial Revival styles. It has a high level of architectural integrity and retains nearly all of its original exterior features. The four-bay, hipped roof automobile garage shared with 222 South Albany Street is also architecturally significant and retains a high level of integrity.
222 South Albany Street was moved to or constructed in its current location on the lot between 1899 and 1904. Evidence suggests that a house was located on this lot as early as 1851, but it is not known whether the existing house incorporates any of the original structure. Earlier owners of the property included: Benjamin Johnson, fourth village president (owner 1860-67); Alexander King, a grain and lumber dealer active in real estate in the neighborhood (owner 1867-70); and William O. Wyckoff, operator of the Phonographic Institute and Remington typewriter store (owner 1870-90) who owned and lived at 125 West Green Street 1872-97.
In 1899, Helen Peirce, who owned both this and the property immediately north, sold the lot to her sister-in-law Rose Emma Peirce. Rose Emma Peirce and her husband Clarence Peirce were living in the house on the lot at the time of sale, which included the condition that the house be moved as far to the south of the property as possible. This condition was met by 1904, when the house is shown on the Sanborn map in its new location with a different plan. Clarence Peirce owned the Peirce Coal Company.
Alterations:
Sanborn company maps indicate that the only alterations to the house have been the addition of small one-story porches. Between 1910 and 1910, one as added near the south corner of the west façade and one near the chimney. Between 1919 and 1929, one was added at the west corner of the north façade. The garage was built between 1919 and 1929. The metal fire escape was added between 1975 and 1987.
Sources:
Bevans, John. 1851 Map of Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N.Y. New York: John Bevans, 1851. The History Center In Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY.
Ithaca directories, 1864-1981. Historic Ithaca, Inc., Ithaca, NY.
Photograph of 222 South Albany Street, July 1975. Historic Ithaca, Inc., Ithaca, NY.
Sanborn Map Company. Ithaca, NY fire insurance maps, 1888-1961.The History Center In Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY.
Tompkins County Department of Assessment. Tompkins County tax assessment photographs, 1954. Historic Ithaca, Inc., Ithaca, NY.
Tompkins County, NY. Deeds and survey maps, 1850-2010. Office of the Tompkins County Clerk, Ithaca, NY.

Source of Building Data: 1910 Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas;
Multi-Family Construction: ; 
Roof of Main Structure: Shingle; 
Additional Sections: Section 1, back (W), 2 story, shingle roof; 
Porches: Porch 1, front (E), 1 story, non-combustible roof / Porch 2, back in angle between main structure and Section 1 (WS), 1 story, non-combustible roof; 
Outbuildings: ; 
Other: ;