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116-120 North Cayuga St. Historic name: Clinton House (NR listed August 12, 1971) "Three-story, thirteen-bay, Greek Revival brick and stucco building with low hipped roof and full-height, projecting two-story gabled center porch with an Ionic col...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 29, 2024 00:37

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004

120 N Cayuga St Ithaca
116-118 N Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 14-16 N Cayuga St Ithaca

115-117 North Cayuga St. Historic name: Masonic Temple  "Three-story, Indiana limestone Egyptian Revival-style building located at the comer of East Seneca Street; three-story central block clad in smooth Indiana limestone with a low-pitched, hipp...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 29, 2024 00:33

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004

117 N Cayuga St Ithaca

Gallagher’s Restaurant

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 03, 2025 22:04

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1954 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

117 S Tioga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 11 S Tioga St Ithaca

“The life of Napoleon has been spared. Fears that Ithaca’s famous thinking bulldog, Napoleon, would have to undergo capital punishment because he bit a trolley car conductor, may now be passed over lightly because kind-hearted Ithacans interceded ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 01, 2024 17:15

“Saved Napoleon From Ignominious Death This Time: Police Had Him in a Cell and Sentence Was Hanging Over Him, but Friends’ Plea Was Granted and ‘Na...

Napoleon Ithaca's Thinking Bulldog

John Diffen, proprietor Oakhurt Hotel 120 Third St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 28, 2025 14:55

Norton & Goodhue’s Ithaca City Directory for 1919-20 Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

120 Third St Ithaca (as of 1899) 18 Third St Ithaca

John Diffin

H C T MOTOR CO Edgar E Tunison prop Hudson sales and service 430 W State 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 13, 2026 21:25

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, March 1940 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

432 W State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 98-100 W State St Ithaca

104-114 North Cayuga St. Historic name: Clinton Hall (NR listed July 7, 1988) "Three-story, nine-bay, Greek Revival brick building with low-pitched, side-gabled roof; retains cast iron streetlevel piers dividing facade into three storefronts with...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 29, 2024 00:22

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004

114 N Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 8 N Cayuga St Ithaca
112 N Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 8 N Cayuga St Ithaca
110 N Cayuga St Ithaca

Rothschild Bros, Department Store, 100-126 S Tioga St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 03, 2025 22:20

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1954 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

126 S Tioga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 18 S Tioga St Ithaca

121 West State St. Historic name: Telephone Exchange "One-story, buff brick building; street-level entrance on east side with internal stairhall; entry decorated with Ionic portico with columns set on stone piers; western bay is two stories, with ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 29, 2024 00:06

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004

121 W State St Ithaca

Levi M Spaulding, barber 300 E State, h 501 W Green  [not enumerated on the 1920 US Census]

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 06, 2024 16:31

Norton & Goodhue’s Ithaca City Directory for 1919-20 Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

501 W Green St Ithaca

Levi M Spaulding

“RHP Inc. which manages Roy H. Park real estate owns both sites [109-111 and 113-115 N Aurora] and considered rebuilding, but later decided that rehabilitation of the first floor at 113 N Aurora was economically feasible.”

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 17, 2024 17:13

Jane Marcham, “Fire Sites: Ithaca Studies Slated,” Ithaca Journal, September 20, 1977, 3.

113 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899) 13 N Aurora St Ithaca
115 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899) 15 N Aurora St Ithaca

126 S Cayuga St  Cayuga Smoke Shop  Irene M Oliver  Ella M Williamson  Vacant  Nathan Cornell 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 05, 2026 01:54

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, March 1949 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

126 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 16 S Cayuga St Ithaca

"In 1945, the hotel was demolished to build one of the most modern and architecturally unique buildings in upstate NY at the time. It was the first building in the area after the World War II effort where steel i-beams were used in the constructio...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 28, 2024 23:42

"Chanticleer Celebrates 70th Anniversary Tonight," Ithaca Voice, December 23, 2016, https://ithacavoice.com/2016/12/chanticleer-celebrates-70th-ann...

101 W State St Ithaca (as of 1946)

"The first recorded [Roman Catholic] Mass was said in the Maloney home  which probably was located at 611-613 W Green St., very possibly the little house now standing at 613 W. Green St."

Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 18, 2026 23:10

 "First Religious Service Held in a Hayloft," Ithaca Journal, May 22, 1965, 65.

613 W Green St Ithaca (as of 1899) 115 W Green St Ithaca

“Mrs. Arthur K. Jenkins of 613 Hudson St., the former Marsaille VanDerHoef, observes her 90th birthday today. Born in Ithaca May 24, 1875, Mrs. Jenkins was a dressmaker here for many years. She is a lifelong member of the First Baptist Church. Mar...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 24, 2025 13:50

“Mrs. Jenkins Is 90 Today,” Ithaca Journal, May 24, 1965, 9.

Marsaille Jenkins

“Mrs. Nancy Dorsey, wife of Lloyd Dorsey, died at Willard yesterday. The funeral will be held to-morrow (Thursday), from her late home in this village, at 8 o’clock. Her age was 66 years, 9 months and 11 days.”

Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 31, 2026 01:21

“Local Affairs,” Trumansburg Sentinel, September 1, 1896, 3.

Nancy Dorsey

  “Frank A. Spencer, 63, world famous jockey and for the past 14 years head groom at the State Veterinary College at Cornell University, died at 6 o'clock this morning of pneumonia. Mr. Spencer was stricken with a severe cold about two weeks ago a...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 24, 2026 18:26

“Once Famous Jockey Dies At Home Here,” Ithaca Journal-News, April 6, 1927, 5.

Frank A Spencer

"Name: David Clark Birth Date: May 1824 Birth Place: Ireland Father: David Clark Mother: Ann Marshall Residence Place: Ithaca, New York Enlistment Date: 16 Aug 1862 Enlistment Location: Ithaca, Tompkins, New York Regiment: 137th Infantry Company: ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 02, 2026 01:39

David Clark in the New York, U.S., Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca 1861-1865, Ancestry.com

David Clark

Florence Brown Alston Born: August 4, 1895 in College Park, Georgia to Columbus Brown and Minnie Rucker

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 21, 2025 15:27

Florence Brown Alston in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com

Florence Alston

Rothschild Bros, Department Store-100-126 S Tioga St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 03, 2025 21:52

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1954 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

110 S Tioga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 12 S Tioga St Ithaca