First National Bank Building
Details
- Name
- First National Bank Building
- Address
- 200-202 E State St Ithaca
- Year Built
- 1932
- Architects
- Richard Metzger
- Building Type
- Commercial
- Construction
- 4 story Brick structure with Brick lining.
- Block Number
- 56
Description
See individual entries for 200 E State St, 202 E State St, 101 N Tioga St, 103 N Tioga St, and 105 N Tioga St for the buildings that preceded the new First National Bank building.
This building also comprised businesses at 101-105 N Tioga St after 1932.
This building also comprised businesses at 101-105 N Tioga St after 1932.
Media (Photos, Videos, Audio Recordings)
Photo of the Corner of State and Tioga Streets in 1931 from the Ithaca Journal, June 20, 1931, 5.
The First National Bank of Ithaca, New York from H.A. Manning's Ithaca DIrectory, 1936, p3.
Tax assessment photograph taken in 1954 for the purposes of government appraisal by Roy Wenzlick & Co. 1954
Add Source/NarrativeSources & Narratives
First National Bank Bldg, Ralph W Mungle Manager-200-202 E State St
First National Bank-101-105 N Tioga St
200 E State St
United Cigar Stores Co, Alfred C Robinson Manager
First National Bank
202 E State St
Chandler's Jewelry, John C Chandler Proprietor, Jeweler and Watchmaker
First National Bank Building Offices
Arthur B Treman & Co, Brokers (202)
Howell & Stevens (William T Stevens), Real Estate and Insurance (301)
Millard E Van Orden, Optometrist (302-303)
Burns Realty Co, John C Burns Proprietor, Real Estate Loans (306)
Walter E Hopper Jr, Lawyer (403)
Ithaca Personal Loan Inc (President William A Dillon, Secretary and Treasurer Jasper N Williamson), (405-406)
Lorraine Beaute Shop, Mrs Edna E Schallowitz Proprietor (407)
The Letter Shop, Mrs Freda Seaman Proprietor, Mailing Lists, Typing and Mimeographing (409)
Metropolitan Life Ins Co, Jay W Gee Assistant Manager (410-412)
Social Security Board, Bureau of Old Age Service and Survivors Insurance, William C Fitch Local Manager (501-502-506)
Home Life Ins Co, William A Evans District Manager (504)
James R Robinson, Lawyer and Attorney (505)
John LoPinto, Lawyer (506)
Truman K Powers, Lawyer (507)
Vacant (508)
Luella M McClellan, Public Stenographer (509)
D Boardman Lee, Lawyer and Special County Judge and Surrogate (511)
Irving Kirschner, Podiatrist (512)
Anne S Kirschner, Podiatrist (512)
Tompkins County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (Thomas J Shannon Executive Officer, John W Hines and William T Vann Members), (601)
The Stewart Howe Alumni Service of NY Inc, Thomas Hammonds Manager, Publishers (602)
Lawrence M Mintz, Lawyer (603-604)
Prudential Ins Co, James P McNamara Superintendent (605-607)
Catherine A Brooks, Hairdresser (611-612)
Federal Land Bank of Springfield Mass District Office, (S M Vaughan District Supervisor, Gabriel N Meckenberg Attorney), (609-610)
United States Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration, Willard E Georgia State Director (701-709-712)
Vacant (704)
Joseph N Frost, Surgeon (705-706)
Hudson J Wilson, Physician (707-708)
Philip J Robinson, Physician (709-711)
101 N Tioga St
Hoch Bros Barbers (George P Hoch and Frederick P Hoch)
H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
"The First National Bank (1932) was designed by local architect Richard Metzger and reflects Art Deco influence. At its height from 1925 to 1940, Art Deco was one of the first “forward-looking” styles to become popular. Rather than drawing on historical styles for design details, it stressed the modern, reflecting the rapid technological changes in building materials. Details tended to be minimal, angular, and constructed of high-quality material. Here, streamlined columns flank the main entrance, which is topped by stylized eagles. The bottom floors have a veneer of Indiana limestone and polished granite. Inside the vestibule is a large bronze entrance door. The stairway has white and brown marble banding and patterned terrazzo floors inlaid with brass strips."
Historic Ithaca, DeWitt Park Historic District and Downtown Ithaca: An Architectural Walking Tour, 26.
200-204 East State St. Historic name: First National Bank Building
"Seven-story, five-bay wide, eight-bay deep, brick Art Deco-style bank building; first two stories clad in Indiana limestone with a polished granite kneewall street-level facade retains two-story grand center entrance faced with polished granite and flanked by fluted, composite piers topped by carved eagle emblems; second story retains three bays with historic rectangular casement windows and is crowned by a discontinuous carved stone frieze of stylized swags and bucrania below modillion block course; upper five stories clad in smooth buff brick retain historic rectangular casement windows; parapet wall at roofline. Two-story eastern addition (1975) has four bays recessed between limestone piers with single-light display windows in each bay. Built 1932;
Architect: Richard Metzger
Builder: V. Giordano (1975 additions)
Historical note: The First National Bank was organized in 1864. It merged with the Merchants’ and Farmers’ Bank organized in 1838. This building stands on the site of an 1870s dry goods store and cigar factory. On the adjacent lots at 105 North Tioga Street and 203 East Seneca Street, there is now a drive-through bank facility where the Cornell Library and the Blood Building stood. The Cornell Library was a free county library built in 1863 by Ezra Cornell. Both the library and the Blood Building were tom down in 1960."
"Seven-story, five-bay wide, eight-bay deep, brick Art Deco-style bank building; first two stories clad in Indiana limestone with a polished granite kneewall street-level facade retains two-story grand center entrance faced with polished granite and flanked by fluted, composite piers topped by carved eagle emblems; second story retains three bays with historic rectangular casement windows and is crowned by a discontinuous carved stone frieze of stylized swags and bucrania below modillion block course; upper five stories clad in smooth buff brick retain historic rectangular casement windows; parapet wall at roofline. Two-story eastern addition (1975) has four bays recessed between limestone piers with single-light display windows in each bay. Built 1932;
Architect: Richard Metzger
Builder: V. Giordano (1975 additions)
Historical note: The First National Bank was organized in 1864. It merged with the Merchants’ and Farmers’ Bank organized in 1838. This building stands on the site of an 1870s dry goods store and cigar factory. On the adjacent lots at 105 North Tioga Street and 203 East Seneca Street, there is now a drive-through bank facility where the Cornell Library and the Blood Building stood. The Cornell Library was a free county library built in 1863 by Ezra Cornell. Both the library and the Blood Building were tom down in 1960."
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004