Clinton House, Ithaca, NY
Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson, 1831. Wood engraving on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (145 x 222 mm), right margin trimmed. General age tone, uneven margins and some minor skinning at the sheet edges. An image removed from an edition of the Farm Journal.
The Clinton House was built in 1828–1829 as an upscale hotel and Ithaca's first professional office building, with 150 rooms, an immense undertaking for the then 4,000-person population of Ithaca. It was named for DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York from 1817 to 1822 and again from 1824 to 1827. Upon its opening Clinton House was reputed to be "the most imposing hotel" between New York and Buffalo. At least four U.S. presidents have stayed in its rooms, as well as numerous film actors from Ithaca's brief heyday as a center for the film industry.
-A Guide Book To Cornell University and Ithaca. Silver, Burdett, & Company, 1904.
Item number: 1424
Price: $200.00
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