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Ithaca Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. The district consists of 64 contributing mostly commercial buildings. It is composed mainly of multi-story buildings with brick exteriors and flat or low-pitched roofs fronted by a variety of parapets set off by decorative cornices.
Following the murder of Shawn Greenwood by the Ithaca Police Department on Feb. 23 2010, [7] members of the Ithaca community have renamed DeWitt Park to Shawn Greenwood Park. The new name aims to remember Shawn Greenwood, an African-American man who grew up in Ithaca, [7] and end the recognition of Simeon De Witt, a former slave owner. [8]
The Museum of the Earth is part of Ithaca's Discovery Trail, which features the museum and seven other educational institutions in the area: the Cayuga Nature Center, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Cornell Botanic Gardens, the History Center, the Johnson Museum of Art, the Sciencenter, and the Tompkins County Public Library. The Discovery ...
Let’s use George Prowell’s 1907 history as a benchmark. Prowell wrote the multi-volume general history of York County that is still found in school and public libraries today.
New York State Natural History Survey 1836-1842 (2000) Geology of Seneca County, New York (2004) A Leviathan of Our Own: the Tragic and Amazing Story of North Atlantic Right Whale #2030 (2004) The First 75 Years: a history of the Paleontological Research Institution (2007) Ithaca is Gorges: A Guide to the Geology of the Ithaca Area, 4th ed. (2007)
The district consists of 263 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. It contains the greatest concentration of Ithaca's architecturally and historically significant buildings and has retained the architectural integrity of the 1870-1920 period. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]