This two-story, L-shaped house has a picturesque quality with its vine-covered stucco walls and cobblestone porch. The building has a hipped roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter ends. Windows are one-over-one double hung sash. Inside the house are the original beamed ceilings, hardwood trim and living room fireplace. The house was built by Earl Sunderville, who lived in it until 1929. In a 1914 survey of land initially owned by C. A. Rogers and sold off in lots for building on, the lot on which the house stands is labeled with the name Earl Sunderville.
The original porch stoop was replaced with a larger stone porch constructed with irregular stones of various sizes and round arches by Professor Alpheus Goodman, who lived in the house from 1929 until his death in 1956. Inside, a few walls have been moved and a closet was taken out on the second floor to enlarge the sewing room. The kitchen was modernized in the 1930s, and a dumbwaiter which carried food to the cellar was removed at that time.
The lot on which this house stands, with a view over Forest Home Drive towards Sackett Bridge, stretches east to Judd Falls Road. In the early 1950s, the house had a Forest Home Drive address, as indicated on the 1950 census and other sources. The 1952 Ithaca City directory gives an address of 123 Forest Home Drive as does the 1956 directory. However, the 1956 obituary for Alpheus Goodman at
https://ithacajournal.newspapers.com/clip/113086328/obituary-for-prof-alpheus-m-goodman-d/ gives his address as 128 Judd Falls Road. 128 Judd Falls Road is also the address for his widow in 1956 when their daughter was married [see
https://ithacajournal.newspapers.com/clip/113501786/marriage-of-eleanor-goodman-rudolph-co/ ]
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Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000021. To access the Building-Structure Inventory form (sometimes referred to as the "Blue Form"), and from which some of the details above come, including the approximate year built, follow these
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