Then & Now: Ezra Cornell's estate was source of much acrimony.
By Carol Sisler
The Ithaca Journal, Jan 10 2004, P. 15
"Remaining in Ithaca, Franklin Cornell prospered by selling Cornell-owned lands to the expanding University and for housing developments, like Cornell Heights. However his daughters, Eunice C. Taylor and Dorothy Cornell died impoverished in 1942.
Eunice and her husband Charles purchased the former Manning farm on North Triphammer Road, including the 1829 brick house, now Warren Real Estate. Gentleman farmers, they lavished money on the property to the amazement of the local farmers.
In 1928 Dorothy Cornell built the rather stark stone slate roofed house surrounded by a picket fence imported from France, now the Cayuga Heights Village Hall. Suffering financial reverses during the Depression, Eunice and Dorothy were cared for by the former farm managers, Alice and Lawrence Scott, in the brick house. They inherited the Cornell furnishings."