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Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Buildings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning student projects

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-5-1416
Abstract

Volumes containing honors designs and theses; an interscholastic competition; and merit solutions for landscape design, also, student projects and drawings, and photographs of projects.

Dates: 1898-2006.

Cornell University Facilities and Engineering records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 43-1-1113
Abstract

Blueprints, drawings, plans, designs, and other material for Cornell and the Ithaca area, including four drawings of Carpenter Hall.

Dates: 1916-1988.

Cornell University Facilities Construction records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 43-3-3487
Scope and content

Includes specifications, drawings, award letters, permits, agreements, photographs, videos, various types of reports, and multiple types of plans and documents for campus buildings and projects. Electronic records including scans of plans and documents and born digital building and construction related items.

Dates: 1812 - 2022

Fall Haven Gardens miscellanea

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064943396]
Identifier: 1-1-700
Scope and content

Specifications (1 volume mimeograph), plans, and elevations for the Fall Haven Gardens apartments in Ithaca, New York, which were built on the site of Ezra Cornell's home, "The Nook"; also, an invitation to the dedication, a phonograph record of the ceremony, and a group photograph of the participants.

Dates: 1963.

Photographs of Ithaca buildings

 Collection — Manuscript box 32 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246492]
Identifier: 1162m
Scope and content

Photographs of the Woodcock mansion and the Schuyler building in the snow.

Dates: circa 1860-1880.

[Plans of proposed Cornell University buildings]

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070595768]
Identifier: 43-2-41
Scope and content Plans and architectural renderings of various proposed campus buildings at Cornell that were never built, including dormitories, an assembly hall, a library, a library and museum building, a student apartment house (planned for Eddy Street in Collegetown), a faculty residence, and also a stone drinking fountain. Two of the drawings have comments by Andrew Dickson White written on them, including comments on a drawing for a library in which White recalls why the design was rejected and who...
Dates: 1865 - 1909; Undated

Winton, Hinman and Ackley family histories

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064933918]
Identifier: 2068
Scope and content

Typewritten genealogies mainly of the Winton, Hinman, and Ackley families, with some material also on the Sanford, Fanton, and Tillotson families. Collection includes a detailed description (transcribed from the 1874 Ithaca Journal) of the construction of Samuel Hinman Winton's house, which was built in downtown Ithaca, New York. Also included is a photograph of the Ackley coat of arms.

Dates: circa 1910-1915.