Old Ithaca Savings Bank Building

Ithaca Savings Bank Building
Ithaca Savings Bank (President Roger B. Williams; 1st Vice-President John H. Selkreg; 2nd Vice-President John C. Gauntlett; Treasurer and Secretary William J. Storms; Attorney Mynderse Van Cleef; Accountant Alvah B. Hillick)

Edward H Bostwick, Lawyer, United States Commissioner

Henry W Foster, Superintendent of Schools

Randolph Horton, Lawyer

Edward N Jackson, Lawyer and Justice of the Peace,

Kent Brothers, Real Estate (Ralph S Kent & Willard M Kent)

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

Chester A Sage, Treasurer and General Manager Lion Heel Plate Co, and Broker

Fred H Smith, Real Estate and Investments, 7 Savings Bank Building

William Hazlitt Smith, Lawyer

Tompkins, Cobb & Cobb, Lawyers (Myron N Tompkins, Fordyce A Cobb and Howard Cobb)

Samuel B Turner, Lawyer

Mynderse Van Cleef, Lawyer

Ithaca, NY

Ithaca Savings Bank Building
Ithaca Savings Bank (President Roger B Williams; 1st Vice-President John C Gauntlett; 2nd Vice-President Emmons E Williams; Secretary and Treasurer William J Storms; Assistant Treasurer Alvah B Hillick)

Bradford Almy, Lawyer

Edward D Bostwick, Lawyer, U S Commissioner Northern District of NY

Cascadilla Company, Real Estate Improvement (President R. H. Treman; Secretary and Treasurer Sherman Peer) 

Abraham W Feinberg, Lawyer 

Randolph Horton, Mayor, Lawyer

Ithaca Security Co (President Mynderse Van Cleef; Vice-President Wilder D Bancroft; Secretary and Treasurer Charles E Treman

Lion Heel Plate Co, Secretary Chester A Sage,

Jared T Newman, Lawyer

Sherman Peer, Lawyer

Chester A Sage, Broker

William Hazlitt Smith, Lawyer

Fitch H Stephens, Lawyer

Dr Thomas R Stuart, Dentist

Tompkins, Cobb & Cobb, Lawyers (Myron N Tompkins, Fordyce A Cobb and Howard Cobb)

Mynderse Van Cleef, Lawyer, President Ithaca Trust Co, President Ithaca Security Co,

Dr Stephen C Woodhull, Osteopath

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

Ithaca Savings Bank Building 
Ithaca Savings Bank (President Roger B. Williams; First Vice-President Emmons L. Williams; Second Vice-President Robert H. Treman; Treasurer G. Louis Cook; Secretary Edward H. Bostwick; Attorney Mynderce VanCleef) 

Edward H Bostwick, Lawyer, Secretary Ithaca Savings Bank, U S Commissioner Northern District of NY

Fred L Clock, Lawyer, Clerk Board of Supervisors

Cobb, Cobb, McAllister, Feinberg & Heath, Lawyers (Fordyce A Cobb, Howard Cobb, Peter F McAllister, Abraham W Feinberg and Riley H Heath)

Central N Y Southern Railroad, Fred A. Burt Agent, Freight Station 

David M Dean, Lawyer

Frederick N Dean, Lawyer

J M Gauntlett & Co, Investments (President and Treasurer John M Gauntlett) 

Randolph Horton, Lawyer

Ithaca Mechanics Society (President Albert G Stone; Treasurer John M Gauntlett; Secretary Fred J Wilson)

Charles A Ives, Insurance

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

Sherman Peer, Lawyer

Dr Thomas R Stuart, Dentist

Mynderse VanCleef, Lawyer

LeRoy H VanKirk, Real Estate

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

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.

"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/