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“George Atsedes, a restaurant proprietor in Ithaca for 20 years, has purchased the Tompkins Hotel at Aurora and Seneca Sts. from Thomas A. Herson and sold the Club Caret, 106 N. Tioga St., to the Tompkins County Trust Company. The Club Caret will ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 01, 2025 12:37

Multi-Family Construction: ;  Roof of Main Structure: Non-combustible;  Additional Sections: ;  Porches: ;  Outbuildings: ;  Other: Wood frame partition separating Main Structure from #212 E State St / Two Skylights / Unknown element in back left ...

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 13, 2025 20:32

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, April 1910

214 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 76 E State St Ithaca (as of 1867) 40 Owego St Ithaca

Multi-Family Construction: ;  Roof of Main Structure: Non-combustible;  Additional Sections: ;  Porches: ;  Outbuildings: ;  Other: Wood frame partition separating Main Structure from #214 E State St / Skylight / Unknown element in back right (NE)...

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 13, 2025 20:27

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, April 1910

212 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 74 E State St Ithaca (as of 1867) 38 Owego St Ithaca

In the 1900 census, John H Hintermeister lived in Aspinwall, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania with wife Anna M, age 33, and sons William T, age 11, Otto, age 4, and Otis, age 4. His occupation was listed as manuf - Pianos + Organs.

Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 25, 2025 15:57

John Hintermeister in the 1900 United States Census, Aspinwall, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania.

John Henry Hintermister

"The Tompkins County Trust Company's expansion project, connecting the bank building to the old Tompkins County Clerk's Office, is rapidly taking shape. Bricklayers are now setting up the masonry link where the Sideboard Restaurant once stood. It...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 05, 2024 01:22

“Ithaca Loan Finance Co. has bought the old J. C. Stowell wholesale grocers building next door to the Ithaca Journal and will start soon to demolish the historic structure to make way for a modern, two-story office building. The structure includes...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 21, 2025 15:41

"About 13 people were left homeless when a four-alarm fire ripped through a brick building on West State Street this morning."

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 20, 2024 03:20

David Goodwin, "13 Escape From Blaze Downtown," Ithaca Journal, June 30, 1988, 1.

132-134 W State St Ithaca (as of 1920)

“’Napoleon,’ well known mascot of Campus and city, will carry a muzzle as the result of being incarcerated in one of the cells of the city police station yesterday. "Nap," so officials of the Ithaca Traction Corporation allege, has taken to biting...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 01, 2024 17:14

“’Napoleon’ Bites Conductor Must Now Wear Muzzle,” Cornell Daily Sun, August 7, 1914, 

Napoleon Ithaca's Thinking Bulldog

Cornea Dance Studio

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 19, 2024 21:02

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1963 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

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

134-136 S Aurora St Driscoll Bros. Mill

Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 04, 2025 03:00

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

136 S Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899) 24 S Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1878) 23 S Aurora St Ithaca

"A tractor-trailer carrying a load of cars crashed into Simeon’s Bistro on The Commons just after 4 p.m. June 20. The vehicle crashed into the corner of the building, located at the intersection of North Aurora Street and East State Street, while ...

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on April 14, 2025 14:21

"Truck crashes into Commons restaurant" June 20, 2014 The Ithacan

224 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 86 E State St Ithaca

"Smoke began seeping beneath the eaves of the two-story, 155-year-old building Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., then spread quickly engulfing the roof and upper floor."

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 20, 2024 02:16

Name: Gary Bailor Address: 90 Bailor Rd

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 20, 2024 22:48

Street Directory for Town of Caroline, Compiled by Ralph Denman, Century System Rural House Numbering, May 1957. HistoryForge transcription.

90 Bailor Rd Caroline

Garry C Bailor

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

INTERVIEW with Court Bellis  - 222 South Cayuga Street.   "Mr. Bellis remembers an old plank road that used to exist out Cayuga Street, on out the Spencer Road and out into the valley. As nearly as he can remember this was built in 1850. On this r...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 11, 2025 16:01

WPA Oral History Biographies, V16-1-7, courtesy The History Center in Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY.

Court Bellis

Elsa Guerdrum Allen papers, 1885-1976 1885-1968

Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 30, 2026 17:20

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Finding Aid: https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMA01362.html

Elsa G Allen

Stanford-Crowell Co (Inc) advertising signs and box manufacturers 1001-1005 W Seneca St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 21, 2025 18:00

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

1001-1005 W Seneca St Ithaca (as of 1899)

"Name: Edward Sorrell Race: Black Enlistment Age: 35 Birth Date: abt 1829 Birth Place: Northumberland, Virginia Role: Soldier Enlistment Date: 13 Jan 1864 Enlistment Place:  26th District, New York Unit: 26th U.S. Colored Infantry Service Branch: ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 11, 2026 19:38

Edward Sorrell in the U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1863-1865, Ancestry.com

Edward Sorrell

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

106-112 S Cayuga St "Commercial building incorporating two earlier two-story buildings; now faced with a mid-twentieth century buff brick facade and a projecting full-length metal awning above the storefronts; buildings are joined by interior pas...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 29, 2024 01:18