This building was burned but not destroyed in the fire of 1871. Newspaper articles about the fire note this was A.S. Cowdry’s blacksmith shop and carriage shop and that it was between Chauncy Cowdry's building and another building owned by A.S. Cowdry. 

"An Alarming Fire! The Upper Part of the Town in Ruins! $250,.000 Worth of Property Destroyed!" Ithaca Journal, August 29, 1871, 2.