Work to start on apartments at University
The Ithaca Journal, Aug 19 1955, P. 5, Col. 1

"Construction of a 96-family apartment colony for Cornell married students will begin next week at the university.
  John E. Burton, Cornell vice president-business, said the project will have 12 one-story garden apartment buildings. It will be erected on the site of Pleasant Grove Rd. (formerly Kline Rd.) where war-surplus barracks for men students stood until their razing last spring.   Completion is expected by about the middle of the new academic year.
  Cost of buildings and equipment is estimated at $825,000. The development will be self-amortizing from modest rentals.
  The Pleasant Grove project will give the university permanent housing for married students for the first time. By last count Cornell had 936 married students out of an enrollment of 9,600 students on the Ithaca campus.
  Von Storch, Evans & Burkavage, architects and engineers, of Philadelphia and Waverly, Pa., did the design. Streeter Associates, Inc., Elmira, is the general contractor.
  The Pleasant Grove apartments will be in contemporary design, built of block with brick veneer and having moderately pitched roofs. Existing water and sewer installations from the temporary men's dormitories will be adapted.
  Of the 12 buildings, eight will be devoted to three-room apartments and four to the two-room type. Each building will house eight unfurnished apartments. There will be four laundries for the project. Area for play and appropriate landscaping are also planned.
  A two-room apartment will have a combination living-dining room with recessed and screened kitchen unit, and a bedroom and bath. The three-room apartment has two bedrooms.
  In planning the project, M. R. Shaw, director of Cornell residential halls, and members of his staff studied married-student housing communities at a number of midwestern campuses. James W. Driscoll, manager of housing in the residential halls office, will be in charge of the completed apartments. The opening of applications will be announced.
  The von Storch architectural-engineering firm did the design for a recent major alteration of the dining facilities in Willard Straight Hall at the university. Streeter Associates is contractor for the new GLF office building in downtown Ithaca.
  Searle H. von Storch, partner in the architectural firm, is a Cornellian of the class of 1923. James A. Norris, vice president of Streeter Associates, is a member of the university's class of 1925."

Note: This development would be called Pleasant Grove Apartments and would be available late in the Spring semester of 1956.