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114-118 South Cayuga St. "Three-story, five-bay, brick commercial building; street-level facade retains two display window period storefronts capped by continuous wood crown molding between the first and second stories; upper stories retain segme...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 04, 2024 01:28

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

118 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1899)
116 S Cayuga St Ithaca
114 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

116 S Tioga St Ithaca

Ithaca Boot Shop, Inc (Fred J Ashdown), Shoes  Whitehouse & Hardy, Shoes Isaac K Bernstein, Real Estate  William H DeVoy, Mechano-Therapist 

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 13, 2025 20:26

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

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

Exchange Hotel closed about 1928. 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 20, 2024 02:11

120-122 West State St. Historic name: Quick Block "Four-story, six-bay, buff brick building; pilasters mark comers and divide facade into three arched sections with paired windows in recessed panels; upper stories retain paired, rectangular window...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 20, 2024 02:37

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

120-122 W State St Ithaca (as of 1923)

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

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 22:14

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

122 S Tioga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 16 S Tioga St Ithaca

Name: Elizabeth Johnson Maiden Name: Wheathy Gender: Female Birth Place: Maryland Spouse: Henry Johnson Child: William F W Johnson Certificate Number: 17674

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 20, 2026 23:48

Elizabeth Johnson, New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948, Ancestry.com

Elizabeth Johnson

Driscoll Bros & Co Inc., Lumber

Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 02, 2025 00:46

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

135-137 S Aurora St Ithaca

Cornea Dance Studio

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 19, 2024 21:03

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, 1965 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

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

204 N Aurora St The Tompkins House, William E. McKay and Ralph O. Erickson, Proprietors

Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 01, 2025 18:57

120 S Cayuga St. "Non-Contributing two-story, double-width, red brick, commercial building constructed in 1978."

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 04, 2024 17:14

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

120 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1978)

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 early morning fire Wednesday at 128-130 W State St that left 11 people homeless was intentionally set...."

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

"State St. Fire Was Set; 11 Homeless, Officials Say," Ithaca Journal, December 22, 1988, 1.

130 W State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 24 W State St Ithaca