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The Ithaca Theater at 413 West State Street opened in November 1940. Designed by local architects Stanley Perez and Ed Crumm, the theater became the most intimate and comfortable of the city's downtown houses. The two-story Art Moderne facade in tinted sand-colored stone supported an off-centered triangular marquee with green neon tubing and black letters on white opal glass. Coral drapes and brown wainscoating covered the front lobby. The latter led to an attractive auditorium with two flowing aisles and three sloping banks of seats, accommodating 600 patrons. There was no balcony. Red and blue drapes, sidewall lighting, and gold and red carpeting drew the eye to an ample, nicely masked, gently curved screen. In 1981, the theater was twinned awkwardly, with a straight wall bisecting the auditorium and seats angled uncomfortably toward that wall.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the theater closed periodically and reopened under new managements, at least once as a techno nightclub. Currently it serves as a warehouse for Bishop's Furniture and Garden Center.
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NRHP Reference#: 96000613
Ithaca, NY. Five exposures (±2 EV) combined as an HDRI and tonemapped to an LDRI. Wider view; alternate view. © 2008, 2010 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
"Index" model, oak case, time only movement was designed for a striking train but never had one installed; this is how it left the factory. Case dated 10 - 1907.
Cornell students fellow Ithacans alike regularly hear the trains as they blow through town, and they wistfully wonder why their train station is a bank and not a gateway to New York and beyond. Here's what the city's passenger railway network looked like almost a century ago.
Prints available: www.thegreatermarin.org/map-store/age-of-rail-ithaca-ny-i...