108-110 North Tioga St. 
Historic names: Ithaca Trust Company, Tompkins County Trust Company

"Three-story, two-bay, brownstone and buff brick Renaissance Revival-style bank building; street-level facade retains rusticated brownstone below the water table and smooth brownstone facing above; former entrance arch in southern bay has multi-light display window; triple-arched window with non-historic fixed lights in northern bay; first floor marked by stone crown cornice with carved egg-and-dart molding. Upper stories retain elaborate terra cotta window surrounds applied to buff brick fagade with a two-tiered Palladian window configuration in both bays and historic one-over-one sash flanked by paired, two-story, fluted Ionic pilasters marking building comers; second story retains three square-headed windows (Palladian configuration) recessed between Ionic pilasters with classical entablature above; third story retains Palladian windows with Corinthian pilasters, classical entablature, and carved neoclassical fans above; entablature has architrave, plain frieze, acanthus leaf brackets and overhanging comice. Southern two-story addition (1958) at 108 North Tioga Street has a glass and steel atrium facade (ca. l990) and is non-contributing;. Built 1895; additions 1958 and ca .l990. 
Architects: Vivian and Gibb 

Historical note: This building was designed for the Ithaca Trust Company, organized in 1891, and merged with the Tompkins County National Bank in 1935 to form the Tompkins County Trust Company. The firm is presently the Tompkins Trust Company."

Source

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004

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