1023 W State St Ithaca

“The West Side Apartments, which have been in the course of construction at 1019, 1021, 1023, and 1025 West State street for the past two months are rapidly nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy within a short time. The owners of the building have received over fifty applications for apartments in the building which only contains four apartments of five rooms each.

The building is the former Patten Hotel, which was moved from its former location opposite the lower Lehigh Valley station, to a point south of the Inlet Mission on West State street. It would never be recognized now as the Patten Hotel, as the purchasers of the building have worked wonders with the old structure. It has been painted a dull grey and does much towards beautifying the surroundings in that section. The location is ideal for railroad men.

The old hotel building was purchased by Fred C. Barr, Elmer H. Wanzer and Sidney Howell. It was moved to its new site on March 1 of this year.

When the contractors began their work of transformation, the building was split into four separate apartments, two upstairs and two down. Each apartment has five large rooms with bath, hot and cold water and electric lights. The halls in each are large and each contain two spacious clothes presses.

Each apartment has its own large, light and dry cellar with inside and outside entrances and individual furnaces. Large front and back porches on each apartment are suitable for sleeping outdoors id the occupants of the flats are fresh air fanatics.

The rooms are totally arranged and the water-colored side walls especially pretty in different shades of the softer hues. There are hardwood floors throughout the building.”

“Fine Apartments for Inlet District: Former Patten Hotel Converted Into Modern, Up to Date Abiding Places,” Ithaca Daily Journal, June 5, 1913, 6, accessed May 5, 2025, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj19130605-01.1.6