Burns Blacksmith Shop

The Burns Blacksmith Shop was replaced in 1915 with a modern 3-story business block.

"Old State Street Landmark Sold: New York Photographer to Erect Modern Business Block," Ithaca Journal, April 13, 1915, 7.
"One of Ithaca's oldest buildings, the Burns blacksmith shop in East State street, next to the Wanzer & Howell black, was this morning sold through the agency of the Ithaca Realty Company to L.S. White of New York City, a well-known photographer, who will take possession May 15 and immediately will start the construction of a three story modern fire-proof business block for the establishment of a photography business.
With the tearing down of the old shop Ithaca will lose one of the last of its old landmarks, the age of which is estimated at from seventy-five to one hundred years.
Before the structure was bought by the Burns Brothers, Julius Casterline was the proprietor, and before that it was owned by a partnership of which Casterline was a member. Beyond that old residents are unable to remember, but they know that the barn-like structure had existed indefinitely and probably dates back to the war of 1812.
Business men of the city are highly gratified at the change which will mean the substitution of a new, modern business block for an old, tumbled down shack which has worried members of the Ithaca Civic Improvement Association and those in sympathy with the betterment of the city.
The ground floor will contain two nice stores and the upper floors will be arranged for the very last word in photograph establishment, with a direct northern light and the latest skylights and all the finest apparatus to be found in the world, which will make this branch studio of the White's one of the best in the country.
The White Studios are doing an enormous business with college, schools, fraternities and clubs' work.... It is understood that the White Studio Co. is one of the largest in this line of business..."