Quick Block

"The foundations having been completed, work will be started on the construction of the new four-story commercial and apartment building on West State street for A.J. Quick, shoe merchant, within a few days. Clarence J. Swartwood, contractor for the new building, said this morning that the material has arrived and the work would be started either today or tomorrow. The building when completed will accommodate nine families with two store fronts on the ground floor of which Mr. Quick will occupy one side. It is expected that the building will be completed about the latter part of July. The entire cost is estimated at $50,000."

"Contractor to Start Work on Quick Block," Ithaca Journal-News, June 5, 1923, 7.

120 W State St

Arthur J. Quick, Shoes  

Vero Beauty Shop, Mary E. Keough Proprietor

122 W State St
Samuel Goldberg, Clothing 

State Street Barber Shop, Clayton R. Eddy Proprietor

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

120 W State St 
n/a

122 W State St
Smith's Wallpaper & Paint Shop (Raymond F Smith)

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

120 W State St
National Army Stores

122 W State St
Mark's Candy

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

120-122 West State St. Historic name: Quick Block
"Four-story, six-bay, buff brick building; pilasters mark comers and divide facade into three arched sections with paired windows in recessed panels; upper stories retain paired, rectangular windows with concrete sills, soldiered brick heads, and non-historic one-over-one sash; masonry parapet has been altered; street-level facade remodeled in wood, possibly to replace an earlier remodeling. 
Built 1923; alterations ca. 1950s and 1980s. 

Historical note: This building had aluminum signs covering the entire facade when it housed a furniture store from the 1950s until the 1980s.

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