The Boardman House is a historic house located at 120 East Buffalo Street in
Ithaca
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Tompkins County, New York
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Description and history
The house was built in 1866 by A.B. Dale for George McChain, on land purchased from
Ezra Cornell
Ezra Cornell (; January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was the founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University. He also served as President of the New York Agricul ...
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It is a three-story,
Italianate
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structure with red brick and brown trim, with full basement.
The main block is 42 feet square and features a hipped roof and
cupola
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The word derives, via Italian, from ...
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The house is named for Judge
Douglass Boardman, the first dean of
Cornell Law School
Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. One of the five Ivy League law schools, it offers four law degree programs, JD, LLM, MSLS and JSD, along with several dual-deg ...
, who purchased it in 1886.
In 1911, the building was sold to the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, now
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college in Ithaca, New York. It was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of Ithaca (which is separate from the town), Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and go ...
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In 1966, the Ithaca College Museum of Art opened in the Boardman House, but the museum closed in 1972.National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on May 6, 1971.
See also
* De Witt Park Historic District
De Witt Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. The district consists of 45 contributing buildings, one contributing site (De Witt Park, known as Town Square until 1869), and three ...
* Douglas Boardman
Douglass Boardman (October 31, 1822 – September 5, 1891) was an American jurist and lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of New York and as Dean of Cornell Law School.
Biography
Boardman, the youngest in a family of twelve children, was born ...
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Buildings and structures in Ithaca, New York
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Italianate architecture in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1867
Houses in Tompkins County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York
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