North Side Pharmacy
Details
- Name
- North Side Pharmacy
- Address
- 513 N Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1962)
- Year Built
- 1962
- Building Type
- Commercial
- Construction
- not specified
Description
In 1962 the owners of the North Side Pharmacy built a new building here, just down the block from 507 N Cayuga St, where North Side Pharmacy originated in 1888.
This building replaced 513 N Cayuga St (Residence).
This building replaced 513 N Cayuga St (Residence).
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Tax assessment photograph taken in 1964 for the purposes of government appraisal. 1964
Add Source/NarrativeSources & Narratives
“Thomas J. Lonergan, proprietor of the North Side Pharmacy, has opened a spacious new store at 513 N. Cayuga St., a few doors away from the spot where the away pharmacy had been located since 1888.
The new cinder block building. faced with stone from local quarries, is 40x100, affording about twice the space of the former store at 507 N. Cayuga St.
The two-story building was constructed by the Giardano Construction Co. for the Tomar Corp. of Ithaca, of which Mr. and Mrs. Lonergan, of 818 Hector St., are president and vice president, respectively.
The store has a parking lot on the side. There will be four apartments on the second floor.
One of the features of the building is an air conditioning system which brings the heat through perferations in the tile in the ceiling, and holds own the dust. The store front has an anodized aluminum decor.
Store departments have been enlarged, and additional stock added.
Lonergan was graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy, a division of Union University, in 1952. He worked at the North Side Pharmacy for a year before purchasing the business of Frank Thorpe and Harry Ryerson in May, 1953.
Besides Lonergan, Dewey Bonner is a pharmacist at the store.”
“Pharmacy Now Open,” Ithaca Journal, December 4, 1962, 9
“Reeder and Sally Gates, owners of Hill Drug Store, 408 College Ave, have purchased the Northside Pharmacy from Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Lonergan….
Lonergan operated the Northside Pharmacy at 513 N. Cayuga St. for 23 years, having purchased it from Frank T. Thorpe and the late Harry P. Ryerson in 1952.”
"Pharmacy Purchased," Ithaca Journal, March 25, 1975, 22
"Kinney Drugs, an employee-owned, New York State-based drug store chain that serves upstate New York and Vermont, is now the owner of Ithaca-based Hill Drug Stores.... The purchase of the three Hill Drug Stores marks its entrance into the Ithaca market specifically."
"Members in the News: Hill Drug Stores are now Kinney Drugs," Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, ChamberGram October 2005, Ithaca Journal, October 5, 2005, 7A.