Ithaca Savings Bank Building

Ithaca Savings Bank Building built 1887, destroyed by fire December 23, 1921.

"Savings Bank Building Gutted By Fire Which Ruins Masonic Rooms and Causes $200,000 Loss," The Ithaca Journal, December 23, 1921, 1, 5.

Ithaca Savings Bank Building 

Ithaca Savings Bank (President Roger B. Williams; Vice-Presidents Robert H. Treman and Paul S. Livermore; Secretary and Treasurer G. Louis Cook; Attorney Mynderse Van Cleef; Assistant Attorney Allan H. Treman)

Sherman Peer, Lawyer, Attorney and Secretary and Treasurer Ithaca Trust Co

Allan H. Treman, Lawyer, Attorney Tompkins County National Bank and Assistant Attorney Ithaca Savings Bank

Mynderse Van Cleef, Lawyer, Attorney Ithaca Savings Bank and Chairman Board Directors Ithaca Trust Co

William Hazlett Smith, Lawyer, Lawyer and Real Estate

Barr & St. John Investments (Joseph S. Barr), Investments

Leo P. Larkin, Physician

Henry J. Shirey, Lawyer

Herman L. Brockway, Real Estate and Insurance

Cobb & Cobb Lawyers (Howard Cobb Surviving Partner)

Rainbow Gift Shop, Mrs. Maria S. Bentley, Proprietor

Harold E. Simpson, Lawyer

Frank Irvine, Lawyer

Robert F. Price, Chiropodist and Podiatrist

Bert T. Baker, Lawyer

Benjamin F. Sovocool, Lawyer

Lyman H. Gallagher, Lawyer

Fred N. Dean, Lawyer

Terrell B. Maxfield, Public Accountant

Building Superintendent

George H. Russell, Lawyer

Albert C. Durand, Physician

S. Edwin Banks, Lawyer

James R. Robinson, Lawyer

Lee L. Boardman, Lawyer

Newman & Newman, Lawyers (Jared T. Newman and Charles H. Newman)

Bryant Heights Development Co., Real Estate (Treasurer and Attorney Chas H. Newman)

Clarence C. Squier, Lawyer, Insurance

Ithaca Beauty Parlor, Margaret H. Beach Proprietor

Tompkins County Bar Association Library

Charles A. Ives, Insurance and Real Estate 

Ralph R. Kingsley, Dentist

P. W. Wood & Son, General Insurance (Percy O. Wood and Mary B. Wood)

The Perry Agency, Insurance (Chapin C. Perry and George W. Perry)

Detroit Graphite Co., Paints, Oils, Donald C. Kerr District Manager, 

Mrs. Vera W. Snyder, Public Stenographer

American Agriculturist, Newspaper (Manager E. Curry Weatherby; Editor E. R. Eastman; Publisher Henry Morgenthau Jr)

Martin B. Tinker, Surgeon

Francis R. C. Forster, Physician and Surgeon

J. B. & F. B. Howe, Dentists (John B. Howe and Fred B. Howe)

Carl F. Howe, Dentist

Arthur W. Crowly, Dentist

Arthur A. Cross, Dentist

Ithaca Community Chest (President Harold Flack; Vice-President Paul S. Livermore; Treasurer Charles Newman; Executive Secretary Fannie P. Campbell)

Ithaca Chamber of Commerce (President Rodney G. Robinson; Treasurer E. H. Wanzer; Secretary Joseph F. Hickey)

Ithaca Automobile Club (President Charles E. Curtis; Treasurer Earl E. Atkinson; Secretary Katherine M. Conlon)

Ithaca Credit Association (President Nathan Hanford; Vice-President Ralph Mungle; Secretary Harold H. Doane; Executive Secretary Jane G. McAuliffe)

Arthur G. Adams, Lawyer, Fire Insurance, District Attorney

The Bank Restaurant and Auditorium or Citizens Restaurant (Mary K. Alberger Manager; Franklin C. Cornell, President)

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Ithaca Savings Bank Building (Louis E Cook Assistant Secretary; Louis C Smith Building Superintendent)

Ithaca Savings Bank (President G Louis Cook; Vice-Presidents Dexter S Kimball Ernest A Miller; Secretary and Treasurer Reginald R Lumbar; Assistant Treasurer Frank Hoover; Assistant Secretary Louis E Cook; Attorney Allan H Treman)

Allan H Treman, Lawyer

Henry P Smith 3rd, Lawyer

Leo N Simmons, Lawyer

J S Barr & Co., Investments (President and Treasurer Joseph S Barr)

Leo P Larkin, Physician

David Robb, Physician (Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat)

Anton W Sohrweide, Physician

Kenneth H Vann, Life Insurance

William S Scott Jr, General Insurance

Daniel Crowley, Lawyer

Cobb. Cobb & Simpson, Lawyers (Howard Cobb and Harold E Simpson)

Rainbow Gift Shop, Mrs Maria Seguin Bently Proprietor

Mrs Maria Seguin Bentley, Insurance

North American Accident Insurance Co, Curry Weatherby, Manager

William Hazlett Smith, Lawyer, Real Estate

Bert T Baker, Lawyer

Benjamin F Sovocool, Lawyer

John A Noble, Jr, Lawyer

Terrell B Maxfield, Certified Public Accountant

George H Russell, Lawyer 

Albert C Durand, Physician, 302 Savings Bank Building 

Henry J Shirey, Lawyer, 304-305 Savings Bank Building 

Squier Insurance Agency (Clarence C Squier and David C Squier)

Clarence C Squier, Attorney At Law

Newman & Adams, Lawyers (Charles H Newman and Armand L Adams)

Tompkins County Bar Association (President Harold E Simpson; Vice-President Jas R Robinson; Secretary William A Decker; Treasurer Truman K Powers)

Cayuga Heights Land Corp, Real Estate (President, Secretary, and Treasurer Charles H Newman; Vice-President Gerald C Williams)

James F O'Connor, Lawyer

Clarence D Tarbell, Insurance

Ralph R Kingsley, Dentist

P W Wood & Son, Insurance Company (Percy O Wood and Mary B Wood)

George W Perry, Real Estate

Robert S Boothroyd Insurance Agency

American Agriculturist, Newspaper (Chairman of the Board Frank E Gannett; Secretary, Treasurer and Circulation Manager E Curry Weatherby; Advertising Manager Irving W Ingalls; President and Editor Edward R Eastman)

Enos A Pyle, Lawyer

Martin B Tinker, Surgeon

Arthur G Adams, Lawyer, Fire Insurance, Notary 

Fred B Howe, Dentist

Harold D Colt, Dentist

Christian Science Reading Room

Agricultural Conservation Program, Earl A Flansburgh Supervisor, state office

The Bank Auditorium

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

"Several authors claim it was erected in 1887 and designed by William Henry Miller, but that date seems unlikely in view of the following newspaper article; John Selkreig, then a bank officer, dates the new structure as having been built in 1890 at a cost of $60,000." 

Carol Kammen, Banks for the Memories," Ithaca Journal, September 17, 1988, 14A.

114-118 North Tioga St. Historic name: The Ithaca Savings Bank Building
"Six-story, five-bay, stone and brick-faced bank and office steel-framed building; street-level facade has five, two-story stone arches clad in smooth stone facing Tioga Street and seven bays facing Seneca Street; three center arches on Tioga Street flanked by paired fluted Ionic columns; street-level facade has square-headed, single-light display window in center bay, and angled, recessed entrances in side arches; classical stone entablature between second story and third story with ghosts of letters once mounted on friezeband (‘The Savings Bank”); four buff brick upper stories retain paired rectangular windows in the three central bays and single rectangular windows in the outer bays with stone sills and brick rowlocked headers, and non-historic single-light fixed windows; brick pilasters carry the line of the colonnade to the roofline; stone entablature consists of classical stone architrave, frieze with disc medallions and capped by dentil course and comice; brick parapet rises above comice molding. Built 1924-25.
Architects: Gibb and Waltz
Historical note: Organized in 1868 as the Ithaca Savings Bank, the bank’s first president was Ezra Cornell. The present building is located at the site of Alonzo Cornell’s house, originally the Woodcock House, where Ezra Cornell died in 1874. The bank moved to this site in 1878, with a new building designed by William H. Miller in 1887. Gibb and Waltz designed the present building after the bank burned late in 1921. The present building originally had two decorative cast iron marquee awnings projecting over the two main entrances. Plaque on the northeast comer of the building reads “Plaque to Ezra Comell/On this site lived and died/1801 Ezra Cornell 1874/ Member of the Assembly, Senator, Philanthropist/Benefactor/of the City of Ithaca—whose citizens/rear this token in grateful appreciation/In Memoria Aetema Erit Justus/ Erected by the Dewitt Historical Society of Tompkins County/ on the anniversary of his birthday January 11, 1909.”"

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

"The three banks along this block of Tioga Street create a small-scale financial district. The current Citizens Savings Bank (1924, Gibb and Waltz) is the third on the site. The offices of the Ithaca Savings Bank, founded in 1868, were located here in 1878, in the former residence of Ezra Cornell’s son, and where Ezra Cornell, first president of the bank, died in 1874. A new bank designed by William H. Miller in 1887 was destroyed by fire. The present building is in the Classical Revival style (popular 1890-1920), with rigid proportions and classical ornaments. Of note are the massive fluted half-columns projecting from the wall surface, entablature at the roof cornice, monumental round arches at street level, and limestone veneer at the base and cornice. This building is 3 1/2 stories tall." 

Historic Ithaca, DeWitt Park Historic District and Downtown Ithaca: An Architectural Walking Tour, 28. http://www.historicithaca.org/