"The Exchange Hotel at 124 W State Street is being remodeled for occupancy by a tire and automobile accessory store to be run by John P. Conley, formerly with the William A. Murray Garage on West State Street. Mr. Conley has leased the part of the building formerly used as lobby and office for the hotel from Mrs. Cecelia E. Otis who will continue to maintain rooming accommodations on the second floor and part of the first at 122 [West] State Street..."

"Remodeling Hotel Front for New Store," Ithaca Journal-News, May 3, 1927, 7.