Old Tompkins County Clerk's Office /Tompkins Trust Building

County Clerk's Office 

David M Dean, Lawyer and District Attorney 

Marcus Lyon, Lawyer 

Jared T Newman, Lawyer

Norton & Conklin Publishers, Ithaca, NY

(mistakenly listed at 108 N Tioga St) 

County Clerk's Office, Leroy H VanKirk, County Clerk 

County Judge and Surrogate's Office, Bradford Almy, Judge and Surrogate 

Eugene Terry, Lawyer, Surrogate's Clerk

Ithaca, NY

County Clerk's Office, Albert H Overacker, County Clerk 

County Judge and Surrogate's Office, Charles H Blood, County Judge and Surrogate

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

Multi-Family Construction: ; 

Roof of Main Structure: Non-combustible; 

Additional Sections: Section 1, back left (W), "B" (basement), non-combustible roof / Section 2, back right (W), 1 story and "B" (basement), non-combustible roof, wood frame, brick chimney / Section 3, right (N), 1 story, shingle roof; 

Porches: ; 

Outbuildings: ; 

Other: Brick or metal cornice, front (E);

County Clerk's Office, Clarence D Tarbell, County Clerk 

County Judge and Surrogate's Office, Willard M Kent, County Judge and Surrogate

Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

County Clerk's Office, Howard L. O'Daniel, County Clerk 

County Judge and Surrogate's Office, Willard M. Ken, County Judge and Surrogate 

Children's Court (Judge Willard M. Kent, Clerk Robert A. Hutchinson)

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Ithaca Clothing Bureau (American Red Cross)

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Club Caret, George Atsedes, Proprietor

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

“George Atsedes, a restaurant proprietor in Ithaca for 20 years, has purchased the Tompkins Hotel at Aurora and Seneca Sts. from Thomas A. Herson and sold the Club Caret, 106 N. Tioga St., to the Tompkins County Trust Company. …

A.W. Chamberlain, vicepresident [sic] of the Tompkins County Trust Company said the bank has no immediate plans for use of the building next door, once occupied by Tompkins County offices. ‘It will give us adequate room for expansion if and when we decide to enlarge our present quarters,’ he said. ‘The bank was built over 50 years ago, presumably with the idea of caring for a $2 million bank. It now has more than $21 million in deposits. …

Atsedes came to Ithaca in 1929 from Brooklyn. For many years he operated the Soda Spa on Cayuga St. with his brother Peter Atsedes. For several years they ran the College Spa together. Later he operated the Glenwood Hotel for some 3 years. In 1940 he opened the Club Caret. During World War 2, he served 2 years in the U.S. Navy.”

“Club Caret Building Sold to Bank,” Ithaca Journal, August 1, 1949, 3.

"The Tompkins County Trust Company's expansion project, connecting the bank building to the old Tompkins County Clerk's Office, is rapidly taking shape.
Bricklayers are now setting up the masonry link where the Sideboard Restaurant once stood. It will serve as a setback main entrance to an enlarged bank building affording greater facilities to both employes and customers."

"Trust Company Project To Link 2 Buildings," Ithaca Journal, August 26, 1952, 3.

“Tompkins County will acquire the Tompkins Trust building after county legislators voted unanimously in favor of the move.

The legislature wants to use the building, at 106 to 112 North Tioga St., to relocate the History Center from the Gateway Building, where its 25-year lease is ending at the end of 2018.

Other nonprofit organizations will also move into the building.”

Matt Steecker, “Tompkins Trust building buy OK’d,” Ithaca Journal, June 8, 2017, 1A.

“Tompkins County will acquire the Tompkins Trust building after county legislators voted unanimously in favor of the move.

The legislature wants to use the building, at 106 to 112 North Tioga St., to relocate the History Center from the Gateway Building, where its 25-year lease is ending at the end of 2018.

Other nonprofit organizations will also move into the building.”

Matt Steecker, “Tompkins Trust building buy OK’d,” Ithaca Journal, June 8, 2017, 1A.

110 N Tioga St
Tompkins County Trust Co

Tompkins County Trust Co, Trust Department

Robert Eastman, Inc

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

106 North Tioga St. Historic name: County Clerk’s Office Building
"Two-story, three-bay, painted brick office building with cut stone water table and foundation; street-level facade retains arched windows with stone sills, fixed wood fans in arches, brick window hoods with corbel stops, and one-over-one sash in two bays; main entrance with fixed wood fan in arch and brick hood in third bay; belt course between the first story and second story with corbelled brackets divides building horizontally; second story retains segmentally arch windows and non-historic one-over-one sash; bays recessed in segmental arches above four two-story brick pilasters; circular windows with sunburst-design iron grilles between segmental arches and above molded pilaster capitals; corbelled brick cornice and stamped metal coping at roofline. Built 1862. 
Architect: John H. Maurice 
Historical note: The County Clerk’s Office was located at this site from the ca. 1820s until 1933. Though designated as the permanent site of the Clerk’s Office, the office was moved, and the Tompkins County Trust Company took over the building in the 1940s."

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

"Built on plans drawn by architect and builder John H. Maurice, it was completed in 1863 on a lot that was owned by Tompkins County from 1823 to 1949. Styled after an Italian palazzo, the elegant brick-faced building has distinctive sunburst motifs over the first-floor windows and brick corbels on courses separating the first and second story. Pilasters capped with circular floral motifs frame the second-story windows. A cornice with corbel brackets accents three sides of the building.
The building at 106 N. Tioga Street served as the Tompkins County Clerk’s Office well into the twentieth century. The office included the County Judge and Surrogate’s Office and Children’s Court. In the 1930s, the Red Cross’s Ithaca Clothing Bureau rented space. An early county economic development group—the Tompkins County Development Association—had their offices in the building for two years in the mid-1930s. During the 1940s, it housed the Club Claret restaurant and nightclub owned by George Atsedes. On its opening night in November 1940, Club Claret patrons dined in the club’s Checkerboard Room and danced in the Claret Room to an orchestra with featured vocalist. Despite Atsedes’ long-term lease and improvements and an addition he made to the building—and a stipulation in an 1823 deed that the property only be used for the County Clerk’s Office—Tompkins County sold the structure to the Tompkins Trust Company in 1949."

Tompkins Center for History and Culture, https://thehistorycenter.net/TCHC accessed September 28, 2024