“I see that Ezra Cornell’s first Ithaca home, ‘The Nook,’ in the glen beside Kline Road and just across from the new High School, has been torn down. Ezra Cornell built the house with his own hands in 1831, as a present for his bride…. The old house, much built over after Ezra Cornell’s time, had lived its life. A frame building has its destined term, which one can postpone only with much labor and cost. I would not have advocated turning The Nook into an unvisited shrine. Nevertheless, it is a pity that its death was so obscure. Those who are interested in the history of Ithaca and Cornell University would have liked to case some sort of wreath upon its rubble.”

Morris Bishop, “‘The Nook’ Is Gone,” letter to the editor, Ithaca Journal, September 6, 1961, 6.