Ithaca Gas & Electric Corporation/NY State Gas and Electric Corporation
Details
- Name
- Ithaca Gas & Electric Corporation/NY State Gas and Electric Corporation
- Address
- 123 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1916)
- Year Built
- 1916
- Architects
- Driscoll Brothers and Company
- Building Type
- Public
- Construction
- 3 story Wood structure
- Block Number
- 45
Description
In 1915 the Ithaca Gas & Electric Corporation demolished a previous building and replaced it with this modern office building.
Guide to the Associated Gas and Electric Collection, The History Center in Tompkins County.
"COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
In 1906 the Associated Gas & Electric Company, a utility holding company, was formed to consolidate a group of gas and electric companies under one umbrella organization. Their main office was located in Ithaca, and the oldest company in the association was the Ithaca Gas Light Company, established in 1852. It went bankrupt in the early 1940s and under the court’s supervision was broken up into smaller companies.
This collection contains publications of the Associated Gas and Electric Company from 1924-1937, and bankruptcy materials from 1941-1945."
Guide to the Associated Gas and Electric Collection, The History Center in Tompkins County.
"COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
In 1906 the Associated Gas & Electric Company, a utility holding company, was formed to consolidate a group of gas and electric companies under one umbrella organization. Their main office was located in Ithaca, and the oldest company in the association was the Ithaca Gas Light Company, established in 1852. It went bankrupt in the early 1940s and under the court’s supervision was broken up into smaller companies.
This collection contains publications of the Associated Gas and Electric Company from 1924-1937, and bankruptcy materials from 1941-1945."
Media (Photos, Videos, Audio Recordings)
Ithaca Gas Light Co and Ithaca Water Works Co/NY State Gas and Electric
Tax assessment photograph taken in 1954 for the purposes of government appraisal by Roy Wenzlick & Co. 1954
Left to right: Lyceum Theater (113 S Cayuga St), Jamieson and McKinney Block (115 and 119 S Cayuga St), Ithaca Gas & Electric Corporation/NYSEG Building (123 S Cayuga St) 1925
Add Source/NarrativeSources & Narratives
New York State Gas & Electric Corp
Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY
Associated Gas & Electric System
H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
N Y State Electric & Gas Corp
H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
NY State Electric & Gas
H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
NY State Electric & Gas
H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
“In late 1915, the Ithaca Gas Light and Ithaca Electric Light & Power companies were consolidated as the Ithaca Gas & Electric Corporation. and by the end of the following year, the new company was given a new architectural image. The gable-roofed frame building at the northeast comer of South Cayuga and East Green streets, dating from the early nineteenth century, was replaced in 1916 by a modem, three-story office building, its walls largely glazed between brick piers and its low-pitched roof concealed by parapet walls.”
Ithaca Gas & Electric Corporation Building, National Historic Register of Historic Places Registration Form, 1990, section 8, page 1
123 South Cayuga St. Historic name: Ithaca Gas and Electric Corporation Building
(NR listed 1990)
"Four-story, three-bay, dark red tapestry brick commercial building with “Onondaga Litholite” stone trim; street- level facade retains recessed entrance in central bay with wide, overhanging marquee chained to the exterior wall from brass lion-headed medallions and large display windows with multi-light transoms in side bays; second and third stories retain Chicago-style windows with transoms above and wood spandrel panels below; vertical brick pilasters capped with stone capitals mark comers and divide bays extending from street level to a deep comice between the third and fourth stories; fourth story (added 1922) retains historic Chicago-style windows; a shallow stone comice and brick parapet wall with stone coping and stepped parapet shape above the central bay with a recessed nameplate panel at the roofline. Built 1916.
Builder: Driscoll Brothers and Company
Historical note: Originally a three-story building for the Ithaca Gas and Electric Corporation, founded in 1915 with the merger of the Ithaca Gas Light Company (1852) and the Ithaca Electric Light Power Company, the precursor of the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation. The first floor had offices and a showroom for appliances demonstrating household comforts; the second, office space; the third, an “auditorium” that was often used by the Ithaca Federation of Women’s Clubs. Driscoll Brothers and Company operated a prolific design and construction firm from about 1880 to about 1940. They continued in the building materials supply business until 1957."
(NR listed 1990)
"Four-story, three-bay, dark red tapestry brick commercial building with “Onondaga Litholite” stone trim; street- level facade retains recessed entrance in central bay with wide, overhanging marquee chained to the exterior wall from brass lion-headed medallions and large display windows with multi-light transoms in side bays; second and third stories retain Chicago-style windows with transoms above and wood spandrel panels below; vertical brick pilasters capped with stone capitals mark comers and divide bays extending from street level to a deep comice between the third and fourth stories; fourth story (added 1922) retains historic Chicago-style windows; a shallow stone comice and brick parapet wall with stone coping and stepped parapet shape above the central bay with a recessed nameplate panel at the roofline. Built 1916.
Builder: Driscoll Brothers and Company
Historical note: Originally a three-story building for the Ithaca Gas and Electric Corporation, founded in 1915 with the merger of the Ithaca Gas Light Company (1852) and the Ithaca Electric Light Power Company, the precursor of the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation. The first floor had offices and a showroom for appliances demonstrating household comforts; the second, office space; the third, an “auditorium” that was often used by the Ithaca Federation of Women’s Clubs. Driscoll Brothers and Company operated a prolific design and construction firm from about 1880 to about 1940. They continued in the building materials supply business until 1957."
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004