"Many months after the question of a central fire station was first brought to the front, and following frequent and more or less spirited discussion of various proposed sited, the Common Council last night voted to purchase the Modern Method Laundry property on East Seneca street, owned by John Reamer, and to convert it into a central headquarters...."

"To Buy Reamer Site For A New Fire Station," Ithaca Journal, April 28, 1925, 5.