Clinton Hall

Patrick L. Meany, Proprietor, Meany's Cafe and Liquor Store, 106-108 N Cayuga St

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

"Ithaca's new eating place--the Windsor Cafeteria, Inc., was thrown open to the public at 11:30 o'clock this morning. It is located at 106-108 North Cayuga street and Patrick J. Meany is the proprietor. James L. Dick, who has been identified with the restaurant business in this city for a number of years is manager. The new restaurant--for it is spick, span and brand new--promises to be a popular place for Ithacans as well as transient visitors.
The cafeteria color scheme is white, the tables, chairs, walls, and interior furnishings are done in white enamel. The kitchen is spacious and sanitary. The cafeteria hours are from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. and from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m., although meals can be obtained at any time from 6 a.m. until 11:30 p.m., in the adjacent grill, a la carte.
All of the features of the modern cafeteria will be followed in the windsor. Customers will obtain their own trays and serve themselves inside the counter brass railing, paying for their food after they have filled their tray.
An idea of the wide selection of good things to eat to be had is contained in today's menu which offers tomato and vegetable soups, roast pork with dressing, roast beef, lamb stew, green peas, evergreen, golden bantam corn, stewed tomatoes, mashed potatoes, tomato, cucumber and salmon salads, apple pie, raisin pie, pumpkin pie, rice and chocolate pudding; vanilla and strawberry ice cream."

"Patrick L. Meany Opens The Windsor Cafeteria," Ithaca Journal, August 23, 1919, 3.

Multi-Family Construction: ; 
Roof of Main Structure: Non-combustible; 
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Other: "Sal." (saloon) / "Manhattan Picture Show 2d" (second floor) / Frame partition between right wall (N) of #110 N Cayuga St and #112 N Cayuga St / According to Sanborn 1910 the Full Structure occupies numbers #108 N Cayuga St, #110 N Cayuga St, #112 N Cayuga St, #114 N Cayuga St / City Directory 1910 lists the 108-112 N Cayuga as "Manhattan Theatre";

"Three-story, nine-bay, Greek Revival brick building with low-pitched, side-gabled roof; retains cast iron streetlevel piers dividing facade into three storefronts with display windows; upper stories retain rectangular windows  with stone lintels and sills; historic nine-over-six sash; deep frieze retains five recessed panels with cast iron grilles; cornice with prominent dentils and brick coursing; balustrade above ogee cornice molding runs along the  roofline; side gables have stepped parapet walls rising above roofline. The second story has a reproduction full length cast iron balcony (1977). Built 1837-1846.

Historical note: Built for Jeremiah Beebe, Henry Ackley and Henry Hibbard (developers of the adjacent Clinton House), Clinton Hall was originally a mixed-use building with street-level storefronts, second-story professional offices and a third-story meeting hall. The third-story hall was used for performances, dances, a dance academy, and art exhibitions. In the 1910s, it was a vaudeville and movie theater named the Manhattan Theater and Picture Show. In the 1930s, it was a meeting place for black fraternal organizations. An addition to the rear was built between 1890 and 1905; dormers were added after 1900; the original iron balcony was removed ca. 1900; the upper stories were converted into residential units in the 1940s; fire in 1975 gutted the interior; fully restored in 1977."

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

"Between 1847 and 1851, the owners of the Clinton House built this block of shops to serve hotel patrons. Of a simpler Greek Revival design than the hotel, it was purposely set back from the street to avoid competing visually with the Clinton House. Clinton Hall was the name given to a 500-set auditorium on the second floor, where lectures, vaudeville, and early motion pictures were shown. Damaged by a fire in 1975, it was saved from demolition by local developer Joseph Ciaschi in 1985 and restored."

 Historic Ithaca, DeWitt Park Historic District and Downtown Ithaca: An Architectural Walking Tour, 18. http://www.historicithaca.org