109 Judd Falls Rd Ithaca

This two-story, L-shaped house features a steeply pitched open gable roof, rear wing and enclosed shed-roofed front porch. Decorative gable elements include a Queen Anne window, stickwork, and sawtooth shingles. Windows are two-over-two double hung sash. It was built by 1890 according to the 1975 Building-Structure Inventory form for this property. At the rear of this property, the land drops off steeply to the Cornell's Mundy Wildflower Gardens and Fall Creek.

According to Albert Force, this house is the oldest in a cluster of three late nineteenth-century homes (107-111 Judd Falls Rd) built in the late nineteenth century in similar style and material. The three buildings can be seen in a photo of Forest Home taken around 1890 from what is now Pleasant Grove Road and looking SSE over The Byway and up Judd Falls Road.

William Post had a farm and a trucking business on this property; this was one of the few commercial enterprises in Forest Home during the twentieth century.  His daughters, Louise and Laura Post, were residents in the 1950 census.  According to Force they remembered that their father kept cows on lots across the street where 110 Judd Falls Road and 116 McIntyre Place were built.

Large elms, which once stood in front of the house, were removed in the late 1950s.   In the 1960s, the house was converted into a two-family dwelling and slightly modernized. The front porch was enclosed (date unknown).

Included in Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000025. 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.

Other sources:
The First One Hundred Years of Forest Home. By Albert W. Force, c. 1954 -- https://www.fhia.org/free-hollow/
Free Hollow to Forest Home.  By Liese Bronfenbrenner, 1974 -- https://www.fhia.org/free-hollow-to-forest-home/