“The Most Conveniently Arranged and Best Equipped Livery, Board, and Hitching Stable in the State. An Attractive Stopping Place For Farmers,”
“Something like twenty-two years ago, Mr. Charles Ingersoll came to this city and engaged in a general dray business. Following this business with success for several years he then, with Mr. C.A. Ives, as partner, bought out the omnibus business of Humphrey Lamkin and conducted the same under the firm name of Ives & Ingersoll. Later, he bought Mr. Ives’ interest and for some time carried on the business alone, finally disposing of its parcels, and invested a part of the proceeds in three or four livery rigs, the stock in trade of a small livery business which occupied a small barn which stood on a part of the site of the new barn…
The livery business was begun ten years ago, and four years later the stable on South Tioga street, for many years occupied by Mr. W. P. Beers was leased, and gradually the business grew until both stables were filled and more room needed, and the owners of the Ithaca Hotel property were induced to put up an additional stable.
The business of Mr. Ingersoll continued to expand until all available leased space was occupied.
Then came the sale of the Ithaca Hotel property and Mr. Ingersoll was forced to face a dilemma; he overcame it by purchasing part of the property and erecting the magnificent stable now covering it, and which occupies a ground surface of more than twenty thousand square feet, or nearly a half acre.
There are two main entrances leading to this property, one on South Tioga street next to the wholesale grocery of Messrs D.B. Stewart & Co, and the other on South Aurora street, next to the planing mill of Messrs Driscoll Bros Co., formerly the Hollister planning mill.”
“The Ingersoll’s New Barn,” Ithaca Daily News, December 6, 1898, no page number, available on
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