"The three banks along this block of Tioga Street create a small-scale financial district. The current Citizens Savings Bank (1924, Gibb and Waltz) is the third on the site. The offices of the Ithaca Savings Bank, founded in 1868, were located here in 1878, in the former residence of Ezra Cornell’s son, and where Ezra Cornell, first president of the bank, died in 1874. A new bank designed by William H. Miller in 1887 was destroyed by fire. The present building is in the Classical Revival style (popular 1890-1920), with rigid proportions and classical ornaments. Of note are the massive fluted half-columns projecting from the wall surface, entablature at the roof cornice, monumental round arches at street level, and limestone veneer at the base and cornice. This building is 3 1/2 stories tall." 

Historic Ithaca, DeWitt Park Historic District and Downtown Ithaca: An Architectural Walking Tour, 28. http://www.historicithaca.org/