“After 34 years, Montgomery Ward’s is closing its store on the corner of Cayuga and East State streets in downtown Ithaca at year’s end, manager George Petrisin said today….

Montgomery Ward’s opened its store at the site in November, 1940, after remodeling the Treman King building….

The building changed hands several times after Ward’s moved in.

In 1950 Treman King sold the buildings and warehouse at the site to Aver Corp.” 

“Downtown Ward’s Store To Close By End of Year,” Ithaca Journal, November 4, 1974, 1.