Old City Hall
Details
- Name
- Old City Hall
- Address
- E Seneca and N Tioga St Ithaca
- Year Built
- 1842
- Demolished
- 1965
- Building Type
- Public
- Construction
- 2 story Brick structure with Brick lining.
- Block Number
- 55
Annotations
1910 Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas of Ithaca
City Hall.
Police Station.
Stone Walls - 1st only.
Description
Fire Companies 1, 3, and 4 were located at City Hall until 1926 when they moved into the new Central Fire Station on Seneca St. Fire Company No. 2 was located at 206 E Seneca St, next to City Hall.
For full building description from 1910 Sanborn map see entry for #200 E Seneca St
For full building description from 1910 Sanborn map see entry for #200 E Seneca St
Media (Photos, Videos, Audio Recordings)
"View N.E. from corner Tioga & Seneca. City Hall [middle], Post office [left], Cornell Library with First National Bank on 1st floor[front right], Unitarian Church Tower + H.B." ca. 1917
Old City Hall and Police Station with Central Fire Station on the right side of the building.
Old City Hall after 1896.
Add Source/NarrativeSources & Narratives
"Weeks of anxious waiting for their new headquarters to be opened ended last night for members of the Nos. 1, 3, and 4 fire companies when they took possession of the new Central Fire Station and abandoned the quarters they have had for many years in City Hall."
"Firemen Occupying Their New Headquarters; Work on City Hall," Ithaca Journal, June 24 1926, 5.
1926
"Seneca Street was vastly changed by urban renewal, a massive federal effort in the 1950s and 1960s that resulted in the demolition of old buildings to make way for new construction and parking. Located on the northeast corner, site of the current parking ramp, was the Old City Hall, a distinctive 1842 Greek Revival brick building. In 1965, Ithaca’s Urban Renewal Agency razed the City Hall and an elaborate public drinking fountain in front of it donated by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1896), sparking local action for historic preservation."
Historic Ithaca, DeWitt Park Historic District and Downtown Ithaca: An Architectural Walking Tour, 22. http://www.historicithaca.org/