"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." 

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