A fire in January 1914 destroyed the two-story frame building owned by Oreste Morris. "The first floor of the building was occupied by Mr. Morris with a shoe shop; William Miller's tailor shop; and the Star Restaurant conducted by Winfield Knapp.... Morris and his family occupied apartments on the second floor but they were out calling at the time the fire broke out." 

"Think Incendiary Set Fire to Home of Oreste Morris," Ithaca Journal, January 19, 1914, 3.