"'Sandy' Patten has staked out land for a hotel site directly opposite the G. I. & S. depot and stone is being drawn for the foundation."
Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 10, 2025 22:56
"Town Talk," Ithaca Daily Journal, October 11, 1878, 4.
cor Buffalo and Brindley St Ithaca 202 Brindley St Ithaca 900 W Buffalo St Ithaca
J. E. Shaw was T. S. Williams’ partner in Williams & Co. Dry Goods “at the Brick Store on Main Street, one door west of the Merchant’s and Farmer’s Bank, “New Store & New Goods”
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 08, 2025 19:48
Ithaca Journal & General Advertiser, May 26, 1841, 1, col. 1 https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=ijg18410526-01.1.1
“Ground was broken this morning for the new hosiery factory at the corner of Plain and Center street. The contract for erecting the building has been given to Frank Alexander. The work is to be completed within six weeks.”
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 14, 2024 17:34
Ithaca Daily Journal, August 8, 1887, 3.
Tompkins County Department of Assessment
314 Farm St Ithaca (as of 1899) 62 Farm St Ithaca (as of 1878) 2 Farm St Ithaca
Tompkins County Department of Assessment
"Timothy Dwight Wilcox died yesterday.... Of late years it has been the quiet claim of the commodore that he was the oldest steamboat man in active service in the United States. The records show that when but a boy of fifteen he began his success...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 13, 2024 22:18
Obituary: Timothy Dwight Wilcox," Ithaca Daily Journal, April 21, 1884, 3, accessed October 13, 2024, https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj1...
Tompkins County Department of Assessment
"Ithaca lost another resident of advanced years last night in the death of Martin Van Buren Harty. He died at 610 West Buffalo street at the home of his step-daughter, Mrs. Clara E. Conrad, with whom he had made his home. Mr. Harty was for many ye...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 13, 2024 20:22
"Deaths and Funerals: Martin Van Buren Harty," Ithaca Journal, July 1, 1914, 6.
“Purchase of property at 319 W. State St. by the Economy Motor Sales, was announced today by Herman C. Smith, manager and one of the proprietors. The concern was formerly located at 110 W Green St., and for the last 3 years the business has been o...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 03, 2025 03:01
“Motor Company Buys Property,” Ithaca Journal, October 24, 1944, 3.
321 W State St Ithaca (as of 2000) 319 W State St Ithaca (as of 1945)
"Fire of unknown origin discovered in the retail hardware store of Treman, King, & Co., at State and Cayuga streets, shortly before 5 o'clock this morning, reduced that large five-story establishment to a mass of charred walls and ruins, and exten...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 10, 2024 01:39
"$350,000 Fire Destroys Treman Store, Ravages Adjoining Property; Seven Families Are Made Homeless," Ithaca Journal, May 4, 1921, 5.
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122 Farm St Ithaca (as of 1899) 20 Farm St Ithaca (as of 1878) 46 Farm St Ithaca
"The front of the new Reamer building in East Seneca street was unveiled this morning and presented an appearance of which Ithacans may well be proud. The building has been enclosed during the winter so that artisans might complete the work on the...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 10, 2024 01:11
"New Business Edifice: The Reamer Building Nearing Completion," Ithaca Daily Journal, March 4, 1907, 3, accessed October 18, 2024, https://nyshisto...
East Hill Historic District, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form, 1986, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322491
“Albert H. Platts was the second native of Ithaca who was its president. He was born where Ralph C. Christiance now resides, No. 214 N. Aurora street in 1845 and was 34 when first elected president in 1879. …he was a traveling salesman for a whol...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 03, 2025 20:45
“Albert H. Platts Dies Suddenly,” Ithaca Daily Journal, March 28, 1910, 3, 5.
Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1935 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
Zackariah Tyler, New York, U.S., Grand Army of the Republic Records, 1866-1931, Ancestry.com
“With last-minute alterations in progress final plans were being made today for the opening of Ithaca’s new Montgomery Ward store Thursday in the former Treman King building at the corner of State and Cayuga Sts. The building has been entirely rem...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 28, 2025 19:16
“Montgomery Ward Store Opening Set,” Ithaca Journal, November 6, 1940, 18.
"Permission was given to Ben Light to erect a dwelling at 535 Linn St. closer to the street line than normally permitted in an A-residence district but he was restricted to 8 feet. Mrs. Neva K. Williams [Watros] who proposes to do the same thing a...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 21, 2025 21:24
"Permits Granted by Zoning Board," Ithaca Journal, May 21, 1949, 5.
115 W York St Ithaca (as of 1960)
117 W York St Ithaca (as of 1949)
533 Linn St Ithaca