"The new hotel at the Inlet is to be called 'Lehigh Valley House'. The lessees, J.H. Prager & Son, took possession yesterday, but the formal opening will not occur until next week." 

"Town Talk," Ithaca Daily Journal, March 7, 1879, p4  http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031157/1879-03-07/ed-1/seq-4/