“Like the proverbial bad penny, Napoleon, Ithaca’s famous thinking bulldog, has again strayed into the limelight. No, Napoleon has not been arrested again for biting trolley car conductors, nor has he been interrupting shows with his sonorous, cat...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 01, 2024 17:16
“Napoleon Goes to Ann Arbor for Football Game: He Will Be Well Cared For and Brought Back, So Ithacans Need Not Worry—Has Booked Passage to Philade...
“James H. Cooper, 80 of 519 W. Green St., died Saturday, December 15, 1944, in Memorial Hospital after a long illness. A 32nd degree Mason of the Henry Hyland Garnet Lodge 40, he was also a past master of the Masons, a member of Lodge 180 of ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 15, 2026 14:54
“Deaths, Funerals: James H Cooper,” Ithaca Journal, December 18, 1944, 15.
"He Was a Veteran Boat Builder, Well Known on the Lakes--Constructed Many of the Boats That Plied to and From This Port. Benjamin F. Taber, one of the oldest and best-known citizens of this city, died at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at his residenc...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 27, 2024 13:57
"B.F. Taber Called To His Reward: Aged and Respected Resident Died This Afternoon," Ithaca Daily Journal, February 19, 1909, 3, accessed September ...
"Miss Barbara Bailor, 37, of 532 W. Green St. died in Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA. Sunday, July 26, 1964. She was a graduate of Newark Valley High School and worked at Cornell University as a technician for 14 years. She was a member of ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 18, 2026 19:35
"Deaths, Funerals: Miss Barbara Bailor," Ithaca Journal, July 27, 1964, 7.
“Mr. Carpenter retired in 1948 after 18 years as superintendent of the Ithaca City Water Department…. He came to work for the city in 1931. He served as a member of the Board of Public Works and was a member of the brokerage firm, MacCumber & Lark...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 05, 2025 18:42
“G. D. Carpenter Dies at 77,” Ithaca Journal, January 16, 1960, 3.
“Samuel Grover, a colored man who with his wife was employed by B. I. Norton at Groton, died suddenly on Monday of last week. The funeral was held at the home of Mr. Norton on Thursday; burial at Ledyard. Mr. Grover was born at King Ferry, and for...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 30, 2026 16:00
“The Village Notes,” Genoa Tribune (Genoa, New York), December 18, 1903, 5.
"Died: Adams, Emma P., age 91, of 401 Convent Ave., Apt. 3A, New York City departed this life Saturday, Aug. 28, 1965. Previously she had been a resident of Ithaca, N.Y. for many years. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Lela A. Cobbs of New...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 08, 2025 01:26
Obituary of Mrs. Emma P Adams, Ithaca Journal, September 11, 1965, 3.
“Through it all Urban Renewal led the way with detail work, like…demolishing the old Central Fire Station at 208 E Seneca St. and the old Savings and Loan Assn. building on the south side of the Tuning Fork.”
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 01, 2025 18:44
Judith Horstman, “Hotel Block: Construction Start in ’72?,” Ithaca Journal, January 1, 1972, 6.
"Fall Creek mill, one of the oldest landmarks in Tompkins County, is doomed. Sale of the building on Lake Street, just south of the Fall Creek bridge, to Floyd D. Poyer of Ithaca R. D. 3 was announced by Cornell University officials today. Under t...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 16, 2024 19:21
"Razing Fall Creek Mill, Ithaca Historic Landmark; Cornell Beautifying Site," Ithaca Journal, September 11, 1931, 5.
"Albert Frederick Johnson, 56, of 111 Cleveland Ave., Ithaca, died Saturday, Dec. 17, 1983, at Tompkins Community Hospital. A native of Ithaca, he was the son of the late Charles P. and Bertha M. Moss Johnson. Johnson was a graduate of the Ith...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 18, 2026 19:42
"Deaths, Albert Frederick Johnson," Ithaca Journal, December 19, 1983, 5.
“A five-story building at 109-111 N Aurora St. housing Head’s Camera Shop and Central American (Gift) Shop as well as 12 persons in upper floor apartments was destroyed today in a pre-dawn fire…. The building, more than 130 years old, is the only ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 17, 2024 16:51
Sue Strandberg, “Fire Destroys Downtown Business, Apartment Building,” Ithaca Journal, January 3, 1968, 13, 21
111 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899)
11 N Aurora St Ithaca
109 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899)
9 N Aurora St Ithaca
"The oldest wooden commercial structure in Ithaca, the building at 124-126 W. State St. housed two apartments and two businesses--the State Smoke Shop and the calzone shop D.P. Dough. After the fire that gutted the upper stories, the city's buildi...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 20, 2024 02:20
Lea Setegn, "State St. Fire Fixes Continue," Ithaca Journal, January 9, 1996, 3.
Christance-Dudley (President Claude H. Mitchell; Vice President George E. Minar; Treasurer Mark H. Minar), Pharmacy-214-216 E State St Thomas H. Williamson, Dentist Baker Dental Laboratory, Albert C. Baker Proprietor The Robinson Studio, Inc. (...
Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 13, 2025 20:31
Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1930 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
214 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 76 E State St Ithaca (as of 1867) 40 Owego St Ithaca
“Michael Granville, 84, died on Monday night, May 9, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Corey Willsey, on the Spencer Road, after a brief illness. The funeral will be held at 8:30 o’clock on Thursday morning, May 12, at the home of his daughter, Mr...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 16, 2025 00:01
“Deaths and Funerals: Michael Granville,” Ithaca Journal-News, May 10, 1927, 5.
“Mrs. Carman Reyna Bayliss, 30, died Tuesday, June, 17, 1941, in Burbank, Calif. She is survived by her husband, Leonard Bayliss, three children, Ronald, Billy and Sharon Philleo; her father, Ysidro Reyna of Paterson, N.J.; two sisters, Mrs. H. S....
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 16, 2025 02:01
“Deaths, Funerals: Mrs. Carman Reyna Bayliss,” Ithaca Journal, June 19, 1941, 3.
"Located at the southeast corner of Seneca Way and Aurora St. it is the second all-new building to be completed in Project 1 of the Urban Renewal program, the first being Woolworth's Department Store."
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 16, 2024 14:08
Judith Horstman, "New 'Contemporary Trends' Open for Business," Ithaca Journal, December 2, 1969, 11.
123 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1969)
117 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899)
17 N Aurora St Ithaca
119 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899)
19 N Aurora St Ithaca
121 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899)
21 N Aurora St Ithaca
123 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899)
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