This picturesque home is a modified version of an English country cottage. It is a one-and-a-half story house with a broad gable roof, flared eaves, exposed rafter ends and slate shingles. Exterior wall surfaces are stucco covered. There is a jerkin head dormer on the former main facade facing Forest Home Drive, a shallow shed-roofed bay window and a side porch trellis.
This house was designed by and for Helen Binkerd Young, of the Department of Housing and Design of the College of Home Economics at Cornell University. She graduated from Cornell University in 1900, the same year as her future husband, George Young, Jr. Mr. Young became the dean of the School of Architecture, serving from 1928 to 1938. He died in 1956. Mrs. Young was herself an architect, designing residential structures locally. See
http://www.cayugaheightshistory.org/helen-binkerd-young.html for some buildings she worked on in Cayuga Heights.
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 121 Forest Home Drive for Marie Rogers, Robert Fiske's mother-in-law. The 1965 City Directory is the first to list the address on Judd Falls Rd.
Exterior changes to this building occurred in 1980; these were the result of the reorientation of the main entry from Forest Home Drive to Judd Falls Road. An open porch on Forest Home Drive, originally the main entrance, was enclosed and now features three picture windows overlooking Beebe Lake. On the Judd Falls Road facade. now the main entry, the outside door was sheltered with a bracketed canopy and a carport was added.
Included in
Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000023. 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
Lookup Instructions. This structure has two forms, one from 1975 and another from 1991.