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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-13-17 Planning and Development Board Project Review Committee Meeting Agenda“An Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to workforce diversification.” 1 of 4 PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT BOARD PROJECT REVIEW COMMITTEE NOTICE OF MEETING & AGENDA TO: City of Ithaca Project Review Committee (Planning & Development Board) FROM: Lisa Nicholas, Senior Planner DATE: April 13, 2017 SUBJECT: Agenda for Project Review Committee Meeting: TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017 The Project Review Committee Meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Second Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 108 E. Green St. Please call Lisa Nicholas at 274-6550, if you cannot attend or you require additional information. 8:30 Project: Commercial Rebuild (McDonalds) Location: 372 Elmira Road Applicant: McDonalds USA LLC Anticipated Board Action(s) in April: Declaration of Lead Agency, Public Hearing and Determination of Environmental Significance Project Description: The applicant proposes to replace the existing 4,800 SF restaurant facility with a new 4,400 SF building, construct a side-by-side drive-thru, install new landscaping, a dining patio, lighting, signage and a masonry landscape wall, as well as reconfigure the parking layout. The project is in the SW-2 Zoning District and requires area variances. This is an Unlisted Action under the City of Ithaca Environmental Quality Review Ordinance (“CEQRO”), and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”), and is subject to Environmental Review 8:45 Project: Retail Expansion Location: 744 S Meadow Street (South Meadow Square) Applicant: James Boglioli for Benderson Development Company LLC Anticipated Board Action(s) in April: Public Hearing and Recommendation to BZA Project Description: The applicant is proposing to construct two new retail spaces in the existing retail plaza. One is a 14,744 SF addition at the south end of the existing building complex that was approved by the Planning Board on November 26, 2013 and has expired. No changes to this previously approved site plan are proposed. The second is a 7,313 SF addition at the north end of the building complex. Site development at the northern addition requires the demolition of the existing grass area, sidewalk and street trees – which will be replaced. The project is in the SW-2 Zoning District and is subject to the Southwest Area Design Guidelines (2000). An area variance is needed for relief from front yard setback requirements. This is an Unlisted Action under the City of Ithaca Environmental Quality Review Ordinance and the State Environmental Quality Review Act and has been determined to be consistent with the findings of the 2000 Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for the Southwest Area Land Use Plan. CITY OF ITHACA 108 E. Green St. — Third Floor Ithaca, NY 14850-5690 DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING, BUILDING, ZONING, & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Division of Planning & Economic Development Telephone: Planning & Development – 607-274-6550 Community Development/IURA – 607-274-6559 E-Mail: dgrunder@cityofithaca.org “An Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to workforce diversification.” 2 of 4 9:00 Project: Residential Mixed Use (DeWitt House) Location: 119 Court Street/ 310-314 N Cayuga Street Applicant: Kimberly Michaels, Trowbridge Wolf Michaels for Frost Travis, Owner Anticipated Board Action(s) in April: Declaration of Lead Agency, Review of FEAF Parts 2 & 3 Project Description: The applicant proposes to construct a four-story mixed use building that has footprint of 25,640 SF and 86,700 gross SF. The building will contain 2,000 SF of community space, 1,160 SF of commercial space and four apartments on the ground floor, 54 apartments and amenity space on the upper floors and underground parking (32 space) bike storage and mechanicals. The underground parking will be accessed via a ramp on Court Street. Exterior amenities will include landscaping and street trees, a street level semi-public plaza and a first floor residents’ plaza. The new building will use a portion of the exiting building foundation. A deep foundation system is proposed to support the building. The project is in the CBD-50 Zoning District and the Dewitt Park Local Historic District. The project received a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission on February 14, 2017. This is a Type I Action under the City of Ithaca Environmental Quality Review Ordinance (“CEQRO”) §176-4 (1) (h)[4], (k) and (n) and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”) § 617.4 9 (b) (9) and is subject to environmental review. 9:20 Project: Townhomes (8 Units) Location: 323 Taughannock Blvd Applicant: Noah Demarest for Rampart Real LLC Anticipated Board Action(s) in April: Declaration of Lead Agency, Review of FEAF Parts 2 & 3 Project Description: The applicant is proposing construction of 8 attached townhomes on Inlet Island, on a 0.242 acre lot. The townhomes will contain up to 2 dwelling units each for a maximum total of 16 units with up to 24 bedrooms. The applicant is proposing zoning for the site that is identical to the City’s adopted WF-2 zoning ordinance. The applicant proposes to subdivide the parcel such that each unit is on a unique parcel. The project includes an 8 space parking area that is accessed through the adjacent City-owned parking lot. The project includes some improvements to the city-owned parking lot- which will require approval by the Board of Public Works. The project also includes an asphalt walkway along the Old Cayuga Inlet, landscaping and lighting. This is a Type I Action under the City of Ithaca Environmental Quality Review Ordinance (“CEQRO”) §176-4 (1) (h)[2] and (k) and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”) § 617.4 9 (b) (11) and is subject to environmental review. 9:40 Project: Apartments- 5 Units Location: 118 College Ave Applicant: Visum Development Group Anticipated Board Action(s) in April: Public Hearing and Determination of Environmental Significance Project Description: The applicant proposes to construct a 4-story apartment building containing five dwelling units with a total of 28 bedrooms. The project is expected to attract primarily student tenants. Site improvements include walkways landscaping and a retaining wall with and terrace accessible from the basement apartment. All above-ground apartments will have a balcony facing College Ave. Site development will require the removal of the exiting house with its associated retaining walls, driveway curbcut, walkways and two mature trees. The project site is in the CR-4 Collegetown Area Form District (CAFD) and requires Design Review. As no parking is proposed for the project, the applicant will submit a Transportation Demand Management Plan (TDMP) for approval by the Planning Board in accordance with district regulations. This is an Unlisted Action under the City of Ithaca Environmental Quality Review Ordinance (“CEQRO”), and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”), and is subject to Environmental Review. “An Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to workforce diversification.” 3 of 4 10:00 Project: Finger Lakes ReUse Commercial Expansion and Supportive Apartments Location: 214 Elmira Road Applicant: Finger Lakes ReUse Anticipated Board Action(s) in April: Public Hearing, Review of FEAF Parts 2 & 3 Project Description: The applicant proposes to will expand the existing office and retail center with a new +/- 26,100sf attached 4-story mixed-use building to include retail, office, and 25 units of transitional housing fronting Elmira Road. A 8,100 SF covered outdoor inventory building and a 600 SF pavilion are also proposed. The new parking and loading layout will reduce the number of curb cuts on Elmira road from 5 to 2. An improved sidewalk will be constructed to provide a safer link between the existing pedestrian bridge connecting the Titus tower property to Elmira Road. The building will have landscaped entrances facing Elmira Road and these will be connected to the new building entrances giving residents and patrons arriving on foot direct access to the street. The project site is in the B-5 Zoning District and requires and area variance. This is a Type I Action under the City of Ithaca Environmental Quality Review Ordinance (“CEQRO”) §176-4 (I) , and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”) § 617.4 (11) and is subject to environmental review. 10:20 Project: Apartments (Short-Term Rental) Location: 238 Linden Ave Applicant: Trowbridge Wolf Michaels for DRY-LIN Inc. Anticipated Board Action(s) in April: Declaration of Lead Agency, Public Hearing and Potential Determination of Environmental Significance Project Description: The applicant proposes to construct a 4-story apartment building with habitable basement to provide short term housing for the adjacent Johnson Graduate School of Management. The building will be 13,715 GSF and contain 24 single-bed efficient apartments. The below grade apartments will look out onto lower courts/light wells at both the front and back of the building. Two of the four front entrances include stairs that span the lower courts. The project includes new landscaping, walkways, retaining walls, walkways, lighting, signage and exterior trash and recycling area. The project site is currently vacant and is used as a staging area. The project site is in the CR-4 Collegetown Area Form District (CAFD) and has received Design Review. As no parking is proposed for the project, the applicant has submited a Transportation Demand Management Plan (TDMP) for approval by the Planning Board in accordance with district regulations. This is a Type I Action under the City of Ithaca Environmental Quality Review Ordinance (“CEQRO”) §176-4 (1) (h) and (k) and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”) § 617.4 9 (11) and is subject to environmental review. 10:30 Project: Collegetown Terrace – Approval of Condition: Interpretive Signage 10:40 Zoning Appeals #3058 744 S Meadow St, Area Variance #3064 301 Linn Street, Area Variance #3065 221 Bryant Avenue, Area Variance #3067 421 N Albany Street, Area Variance #3069 412 Worth Street, Area Variance #3070, 412 Worth Street, Special Permit 10:50 Agenda Review for 4-25-16 11:00 Adjournment cc: Mayor Svante Myrick & Common Council Dr. Luvelle Brown, Superintendent, ICSD Jay Franklin, Tompkins County Assessment The Past in the Present COLLEGETOWN TERRACE HISTORIC BUILDING MARKERS This document addresses a Condition for Final Approval of Collegetown Terrace Apartments. In 2012, the Ithaca Planning Board mandated that five buildings existing on the site before construction be commemorated with a Historic Marker, that one of them, 911 East State Street be restored and that one bay of a series of granite window arches and the commemorative lintel above the rear entrance to the Delano Home be saved. Mary Raddant Tomlan, Historian Ian Tyndall, Landscape and Urban Design Jeremy Bennett, Graphic Design 1 2012 Approved Interpretive Master Pan 2 Photo of site from East State Street East State Street elevation Construction section THE PATRICK AND JOHN C DRISCOLL HOUSES MARKER 717 and 719 East State Street These houses were owned by two brothers, members of a prominent Ithaca construction family. Behind the Eddy Plaza is their former quarry, an important resource in the formative years of their company. The quarry wall remains at the bottom of South Quarry Stream, behind Casa Roma. The historic marker sits on one of a pair of white marble walls, built from stone that once veneered the basement of Patrick Driscoll’s house. 3 Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Stimson Hall, Cornell University, 1900-02, William H. Miller, architect, Driscoll Bros. & Company, contractors. Driscoll Bros. & Company advertisement (Ithaca Journal, Sept. 25, 1919), “Greeting.” John C. Driscoll at the Ithaca High School construction site, c. 1913.Credit: Awaiting clarification“The Founders,” from Driscoll Bros. & Company, 1878-1928 booklet.Credit: The History Center in Tompkins County.Driscoll Block, East State and North Quarry Streets, 1890, Driscoll Bros., contractors. Double house for Michael and John Naughton, Eddy and Cook Streets, 1895, William M. Driscoll, designer, Driscoll Bros., contractors. Greycourt Apartments, Eddy Street, 1909-10, William H. Miller, architect, Driscoll Bros. & Company, contractors. Carey Building, East State Street, 1926- 27, Edgar D. Townsley of Driscoll Bros. & Company, architect, Ward-Kurz Co., engineers and contractors. Ithaca City Hospital, South Quarry Street, 1912-13, Gibb & Waltz, architects, Driscoll Bros. & Company, contractors, view from the north. Driscoll Land Syndicate advertisement (Ithaca Daily Journal, Apr. 14, 1894) for “Fifty Choice Lots.” Driscoll Bros. & Co. advertisement (Ithaca Daily Journal, Jan. 19, 1910) for “Hollow Terra Cotta Building Blocks.”Credit: Awaiting clarificationCredit: The History Center in Tompkins County. Credit: Awaiting clarificationCredit: Courtesy of Mary Raddant Tomlan. Credit: The History Center in Tompkins County. Credit: Mary Raddant Tomlan. Credit: The History Center in Tompkins County. Credit: ikon. 5 architects. Credit: The History Center in Tompkins County. 6 Over a period of several decades the Driscoll brothers initiated various real estate developments, primarily residential. Some, such as the Driscoll Block of 1890 and a model home erected on lower South Hill in 1926, involved individual properties. Among the larger ventures was the Driscoll Land Syndicate’s 1894 offering of “Fifty Choice Lots,” the East Hill site possibly that bounded by State and Mitchell Streets and the family’s stone quarry. Though the press reported substantial sales, no clear evidence thereof has been found, and it was 1906 when construction began along the new Brandon Place on that site and a plan was filed, identifying the property as that of Driscoll Bros. & Co. Some of the dwellings would attract Cornell faculty, while others would be occupied by Driscoll family members. In 1910, the brothers incorporated the Driscoll Land Company, to which they transferred most of this property and other landholdings further down State Street; a large portion of the latter was sold in 1911 for the new Ithaca City Hospital. 5 Over the years, the Driscoll Brothers firm developed a range of design services—from advising customers on the choice of building materials to offering ready- made house designs and preparing client-specific plans. It seems probable that these services were overseen by William M. Driscoll, who had been enrolled for a year in Cornell’s Mechanical Engineering program and reportedly “gave considerable study to architecture.” William was credited with drawing plans for the Naughton brothers’ brick double house on Eddy Street (1895), and he presented representatives of the Immaculate Conception Church with designs for an addition to the parochial school (1915). The firm had likely employed draftsmen in the 1890s for its millwork business, and it had architects on its roster by the 1910s. A Driscoll Bros. & Co. newspaper advertisement in 1922 cited twenty-one buildings that the firm had designed. While most of these were residences, the list also included office buildings and a theater. Perhaps the best-known of the firm’s designers was Edgar D. Townsley, the architect of the Carey Building on East State Street (1926-27). 4 The longest-lived component of the Driscolls’ business enterprise was its trade in building materials. From stone, brick, plaster, and wood, the firm would expand its offerings to include such manufactured products as concrete block, hollow clay tile, pressed wallboard, or asbestos shingles. Its advertisements featured fireplace grates, stock or custom cabinetry, hardware items, and painting supplies. The Driscoll Brothers firm supplied materials for its own construction projects as well as for those of other builders and contractors and for individual homeowners. Teams of horses were kept in company stables for use in transporting materials received by rail or water, and dispersed to construction sites throughout the city and environs. While Driscoll Bros & Co. had local competition from such well-established lumberyards as Robinson & Carpenter and hardware dealers like Treman, King & Co., the firm was noteworthy for the range of its offerings and for the market provided by its own construction contracts. 3 Among the early works of the Driscoll brothers, special note was given to their masonry projects, whether the “handsome stone wall” at a local residence, a “massive stone bridge” in Massachusetts or the paving of Ithaca streets and sidewalks. Job opportunities ranged from new and remodeled residential and commercial buildings to educational and institutional structures. As the firm took on more varied and numerous projects, its workforce also grew, with seasonal or contractual conditions occasionally leading the company to advertise for additional laborers or for tradesmen from outside the area. The local press often commented on the Driscoll firm’s payroll or noted its number of employees, whether 55, 83 or over 100, and reported the dollar amount of its contracts, such as its $78,800 of work in 1898. For its larger jobs, the firm employed more substantial construction equipment. A new hoisting machine was obtained in 1901 to raise the steel girders for Cornell University’s medical school building, Stimson Hall, while the contractor’s “big steam shovel” was used to excavate the cellar of the Strand Theater in 1916. 2 Construction was the base on which the Driscoll firm was founded and grew, complemented by trade in building materials and components; lesser roles would be played by its design services and residential developments. Originally working from the family home on Mitchell Street, the brothers made use of the native stone on that site and subsequently on property they purchased further down East State Street. In 1891 they opened an office on South Tioga Street, adding the sale of masons’ supplies and insurance to their business. A more significant move occurred in 1896 when this “hustling firm” purchased the Hollister planing mill and lumber yards on both sides of South Aurora Street along the north bank of Six Mile Creek, providing production facilities and increased space for storing materials and equipment. Identifying themselves as Driscoll Brothers & Co., the firm incorporated under that name in 1904, the stockholding founders being Patrick, John C. and William M., their cousin Michael Driscoll, and their nephew Thomas W. Mone, son of the late Michael Mone. News accounts and obituaries describe Patrick as handling executive duties, John C. as providing on-site construction supervision, William M. as most often responsible for communications with clients and the public, Michael as having charge of the shops and yards, and Thomas W. Mone as the bookkeeper. In early 1910 the firm constructed an office and warehouse building on east side of South Aurora Street and extended its landholdings eastward along the creek; in 1914-15 it replaced the mill building on the west side. The orientation of the Driscoll firm began to shift in the 1920s, with the proportion of residential projects becoming more numerous than larger ones, and with increased emphasis on the provision of building materials and components. The firm was occasionally associated with the Ward-Kurz Company, contractors and engineers, headed by two Driscoll sons-in law with civil engineering degrees from Cornell, and with the successor Ward Construction Company. A more dramatic change came in the mid-1950s, as Green Street was extended eastward through the Driscoll firm’s buildings and yards to form the southern prong of the “Tuning Fork” at the foot of East Hill. Following a liquidation sale in 1956-57, Raymond P. Driscoll, a son of John C., opened a paint store on South Aurora Street. 1 The three siblings who established the Driscoll Brothers firm—Patrick, John C. and William M.—were the sons of Irish immigrants who had settled in Tompkins County around 1850. With others of their family, the Driscolls became well-known in Ithaca for both their construction- related activities and their involvement in the social and civic life of the community, whether as parishioners of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, as members of fraternal or business organizations or, in the case of William M. Driscoll, in service on various city boards. According to some of the Driscoll firm’s advertisements, its origins dated to 1878, at which time Patrick was an apprentice to his brother-in-law, Michael Mone. When Mone’s illness and death prevented him from executing the masonry contract for a large Cornell University barn, Patrick assumed responsibility and completed the job. He was subsequently joined by his brothers John C., who had learned the trades of both carpenter and mason, and William M., who had one year of study in mechanical engineering at the university, and by 1888 they had identified themselves as Driscoll Brothers, contractors and builders. Patrick Driscoll House John C. Driscoll House Driscoll quarry wall Driscoll Block Greycourt Apartments Ithaca City (later Memorial) Hospital F ED C BA YOU ARE HERE KEY A B C D E F North Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: Kathryn WolfCredit: Kathryn WolfCredit: Ian Tyndall.Patrick Driscoll house, East State Street, view from the southwest.Patrick Driscoll house, 717 East State Street.John C. Driscoll house, 719 East State Street.Driscoll quarry wall, near East State and South Quarry Streets. The marble facing on some of the low walls at the Eddy Plaza originally graced the basement walls of contractor Patrick Driscoll’s home at 717 East State Street. When that house was erected in 1887, the Ithaca Daily Journal characterized it as “the only dwelling house in this city with a marble foundation.” The site of the house was part of larger property holdings by members of the Driscoll family in that area, property that included brother John C. Driscoll’s home to the east, erected in 1892, a quarried slope to the south, and land subsequently purchased for the Ithaca City Hospital. Driscoll family members continued to reside in these houses until the 1950s, long after the deaths of JohnC. Driscoll in 1914 and Patrick in 1923. [The Patrick and John C. Driscoll houses were demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE PATRICK AND JOHN C. DRISCOLL HOUSES BUILDING ENTERPRISE AND THE DRISCOLL BROTHERS 4 East State Street elevation Photo of site looking south Plan Construction section East State Street VAN RENSSELAER - DE GARMO HOUSE MARKER 809/811 East State Street This unusually attenuated Marker commemorates the home of Martha Van Rensselaer, by far the block’s most distinguished resident. Charles DeGarmo a Cornell Professor and leader of the Education Department lived with his family in the smaller part of the double house - 809. Both homes had many renters and the house was a lively part of campus and community life. The marker is directly behind a plan representation of the building’s street facade cast in the sidewalk in its original location. East State Street was much narrower back then. This panel is 16” high and 144” wide. It is shown on the following 3 pages. 5 Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Pages from the Bulletin on “Saving Strength,” Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives (March 1905). Notice (Nov. 26, 1912) of Somerset Y meeting at Prof. De Garmo’s home. Advertisement (Dec. 8, 1913) for the Forest Home Inn tearoom and gift shop.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryBerkshire pig at the rear of 809-811 East State Street, c.1910-11.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer, portrait. (next) Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, 811 (left) and 809 (right) East State Street.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer (left) and Flora Rose (right). Martha Van Rensselaer (seated, left foreground) and others with the fi rst Extension automobile, 1913, in front of the Home Economics Building (later Comstock Hall and subsequently the Computing and Communications Center).Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryFrigga Fylga members, with Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer (center, middle row), 1912.Credit: Cornell University LibraryCredit: Frank Santelli Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun (below) Text advertisement (Feb. 25, 1907) for Leland D. Van Rensselaer’s insurance business. Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Aerial view, including the fi rst Home Economics Building and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, with the Roberts Hall group in the foreground, 1934.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library“Save Wheat,” Edward Penfi eld poster for the United States Food Administration, c.1914-18. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryForest Home Inn, Forest Home Drive, interior, between 1913-21 Ithaca City Market, between West State and West Seneca Streets, view to the north, c.1915. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Certifi cate of appreciation from the United States Food Administration to Martha Van Rensselaer, 1918. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Charles De Garmo, portrait. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Title page and Fig. 1 from Charles De Garmo, Aesthetic Education (1913). Credit: Cornell University Library 6 From the beginning, Van Rensselaer’s work had taken education into the homes of farm families. And even as home economics courses were offered on campus, she continued to share her knowledge, ideas and experience with the broader community, whether in local organizations or through state and national programs. In many of these endeavors, her expertise in administrative matters was complemented by that of her colleague Flora Rose in foods and nutrition. As members of the Ithaca chapter of the Housewives’ League, Van Rensselaer and Rose were active supporters of the Ithaca City Market, which opened in June 1913 on a leased site just east of Meadow Street between State and Seneca Streets. Envisioned as a benefi t to consumers, farmers and, through the farmers’ trade, local businessmen, the market was described by the Ithaca Journal as “the rendezvous of all classes and types of people.” Though the market association purchased property in the next block to the east and improved its facilities, the success of this enterprise would be limited by impacts associated with the expanding war in Europe as well as various community concerns. The United States’ entrance into the war in April 1917 brought challenges to the supply and distribution of food, given the reduced pool of farm labor and calls to share the nation’s harvests with our allies. To promote conservation, the United States Food Administration, an emergency program headed by Herbert Hoover, turned to patriotic volunteers and to posters such as that encouraging consumers to “Save Wheat.” After serving on a federal advisory body and working with county and state campaigns, Martha Van Rensselaer was appointed head of the Food Administration’s Home Conservation Division in March 1918, being granted a leave of absence from Cornell University to perform her duties in Washington. Van Rensselaer’s postwar activity was punctuated in 1923 by her League of Women Voters’ honor as one of the twelve greatest living American women. Both she and Rose spent time abroad that year, their work in child welfare earning recognition by the King of Belguim. In the years before her death in 1932 she was appointed by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Hoover to various committees and positions concerned with farming conditions, child health and home ownership. In sum, the signifi cance of Martha Van Rensselaer’s work rests not only in her role in the development of the College of Home Economics, but also in her ability to bring the lessons of this fi eld to individuals, homes and communities far beyond the Cornell University campus. 5 Drawing on the content of her Farmers’ Wives’ Reading Course, Martha Van Rensselaer developed on-campus courses in household management and institutional management. The latter, intended to help prepare women for employment outside the home, was augmented by several enterprises begun in the early 1910s that combined Van Rensselaer’s management perspective and Flora Rose’s expertise in foods and nutrition. Two on-campus eating establishments provided students with training in the purchase and preparation of food and in customer service. A cafeteria in the new Home Economics Building began regular operation in Spring 1913, while a University Club dining room, located in a former faculty residence on Central Avenue, opened in Fall 1914. During this same period, Van Rensselaer and Rose embarked on the fi rst of two off-campus ventures intended to offer job opportunities to graduates as well as practical experience to students. Their purchase of a tearoom in downtown Binghamton in 1911 focused on a food service type that became popular during the early twentieth century. Conceived as a place for leisurely dining and conversation, it was often accompanied by a gift shop featuring Oriental and other artistic items. In December 1913, having disposed of the Binghamton tearoom, the two women opened another in the hamlet of Forest Home, a short distance east of Beebe Lake. This former mill community within walking distance of the College of Agriculture had recently seen an infl ux of university faculty seeking convenient suburban residences. The building that Van Rensselaer and Rose selected and apparently rented had been designed by architect William H. Miller and erected in 1911, initially housing a grocery and a confectionery and ice cream parlor. Adapted by them as the Forest Home Inn, the tearoom and gift shop were decorated by two of their faculty colleagues and managed by a succession of women, a number of whom were recent Cornell graduates. Van Rensselaer and Rose purchased the building in 1915, and it remained in their ownership even as independent management took over operation of the Forest Home Inn in the late 1920s. 4 Whether measured by its course offerings, enrollment, faculty, or facilities, the program in home economics at Cornell University saw impressive growth during the career of Martha Van Rensselaer, initially within the College of Agriculture and then as a separate College of Home Economics. Under her initiative, on-campus classes were developed for resident students, even as she continued to supervise the farmers’ wives reading course and introduced a winter short-course. In 1907, Van Rensselaer was joined by faculty colleague Flora Rose, and together they began to plan course offerings in the new Department of Home Economics. Beyond the classroom, they encouraged the formation of a women’s agricultural club, Frigga Fylga, named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the earth. In 1911, the two women were recognized by the University Faculty who, “while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships,” voted to “interpose no objection to their appointment.” By 1913, with more than 100 students and a slight increase in teaching staff, there were physical signs of the program’s progress, the most notable being the new Home Economics Building, which incorporated not only classrooms and offi ces but also laboratories and a cafeteria that refl ected the department’s practical studies. Meanwhile, the extension faculty and staff enjoyed new outreach capabilities with the use of a railroad car fi tted up for traveling demonstrations and with the acquisition of an automobile. Though the growth of the program slowed during World War I, university trustees voted in 1919 to designate Home Economics as a School within the College of Agriculture, and soon sought state legislation to establish it as a separate College, achieving that goal in February 1925. The New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell, with more than 500 students, would have six departments—Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, Household Art, Household Management, Institution Management, and Family Life. Construction of a new building began in 1931, though little more than the steel work was completed before Van Rensselaer’s death on May 26, 1932. With some 500 rooms, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall opened for regular instruction in fall 1933, and has remained a witness to its namesake’s more than thirty years as an educator, even as the college became the College of Human Ecology in 1969. 3 Connections between the Van Rensselaer and De Garmo households and campus life went beyond the basic home-work relationship of their primary members. Leland Van Rensselaer, Martha’s older brother, advertised his downtown insurance business in the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1910-11, Martha Van Rensselaer used the off-campus location to explore what she envisioned as becoming a “pig business,” turning to faculty in animal husbandry for advice and assistance. Having obtained a pig from a Yates County breeder of Berkshires, she reported that it had rooted up all of the surrounding sod and was “the admiration of the entire household.” The De Garmo home was an occasional meeting place of a student temperance organization, the Somerset Y, while Mrs. De Garmo participated as a hostess or chairwoman at various events on campus. The couple’s younger son resided at home while attending Cornell, receiving his degree in 1909. Although the families on both sides of the double house accommodated renters, the scale of this activity at 811 East State Street was noteworthy. Cornell directories of 1910, for example, identifi ed four faculty and staff members, including Van Rensselaer, and at least eight students residing there; a contemporary photograph of the rear of the house shows a number of additions, likely made to expand dining and sleeping quarters. While this commercial enterprise was probably operated by Leland and/or his wife, Martha Van Rensselaer’s correspondence documents her interaction with various past tenants. One faculty resident, Flora Rose, became her close friend and home economics colleague. 2 In serving as faculty members at Cornell, Martha Van Rensselaer and Charles De Garmo not only taught classes and held administrative positions at the university but also participated in professional societies and published on both general and specifi c topics. As Supervisor of the Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives, Van Rensselaer wrote, edited and compiled bulletins and discussion papers on such subjects as “Saving Steps,” “Saving Strength” and “Home Sanitation,” encouraging women to analyze their daily activities and apply an understanding of economics and science in their operation of the household. An early member of the American Home Economics Association and its president in 1914- 16, her articles appeared in such diverse publications as the Journal of Home Economics and Good Housekeeping; in the 1920s she served as editor of the homemaking department of the Delineator magazine. De Garmo, a member of several national educational associations, frequently lectured to state and municipal organizations of teachers and principals. A 1907 review of his Principles of Secondary Education ventured that “every student of education will be glad of the book,” a prediction seemingly borne out by its several reprintings and the subsequent publication of a new and enlarged edition. In Aesthetic Education of 1913, he demonstrated relationships between effi ciency and beauty in tools as well as between form and expression in poetry, urging teachers to promote “an aesthetic view of the world for every child. 1 From about 1901 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to the families of two Cornell University faculty members, educators who would be noted for their contributions on campus, in the local community and beyond. Martha Van Rensselaer, who would be instrumental in developing the Department and later the College of Home Economics, lived at 811 with her brother Leland and his wife. Charles De Garmo, Professor of the Science and Art of Education, resided at 809 with his wife Ida and their younger son, apparently renting their unit before Mrs. De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer jointly purchased the property in March 1902. Both households included varying numbers of roomers or boarders. Martha Van Rensselaer had graduated from the Chamberlain Institute in western New York State and had taught in her home community of Randolph before being elected a Cattaraugus County school commissioner. Her association with Cornell began in 1900, when she was called on by Liberty Hyde Bailey to develop a correspondence course for farmers’ wives that would complement the agricultural college’s extension work for farmers. Charles De Garmo, a Midwesterner, had received a doctoral degree in Germany, followed by university teaching in Illinois and the seven-year presidency of Swarthmore College before he was hired by Cornell in 1898 to lead its program in education. BA YOU ARE HERE Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double House Valentine House KEY A B North Credit: Frank SantelliVan Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street.Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: ikon.5 architectsView from Mitchell Street to the Williams, Valentine and Van Rensselaer-De Garmo houses. Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street, view from the east. The tinted concrete pavement in front of the present 809 East State Street marks the footprint of the front portion of the red brick double house that was erected there in 1895. Its owner, William L. Carey, had purchased his lot from members of the Valentine family, whose home was next door and whose property holdings along the south side of East State Street are recalled in the name of Valentine Place a short distance to the east. From about 1900 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to Cornell University faculty members Charles De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer. The De Garmo family resided in the western unit, while Van Rensselaer lived in the eastern portion with her brother Leland, his wife and a varying number of faculty, staff and students, including Van Rensselaer’s close friend and colleague Flora Rose. In 1914, Van Rensselaer and Rose moved to a house on campus, while De Garmo retired and moved to Florida with his wife, who transferred her share of the property to Martha Van Rensselaer in 1919. Leland Van Rensselaer continued to reside at 811 until his death in 1950, renting out as many as eight apartments in the building. [The Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house was demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE VAN RENSSELAER-DE GARMO DOUBLE HOUSE EDUCATION ON THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Pages from the Bulletin on “Saving Strength,” Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives (March 1905). Notice (Nov. 26, 1912) of Somerset Y meeting at Prof. De Garmo’s home. Advertisement (Dec. 8, 1913) for the Forest Home Inn tearoom and gift shop.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryBerkshire pig at the rear of 809-811 East State Street, c.1910-11.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer, portrait. (next) Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, 811 (left) and 809 (right) East State Street.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer (left) and Flora Rose (right). Martha Van Rensselaer (seated, left foreground) and others with the fi rst Extension automobile, 1913, in front of the Home Economics Building (later Comstock Hall and subsequently the Computing and Communications Center).Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryFrigga Fylga members, with Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer (center, middle row), 1912.Credit: Cornell University LibraryCredit: Frank Santelli Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun (below) Text advertisement (Feb. 25, 1907) for Leland D. Van Rensselaer’s insurance business. Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Aerial view, including the fi rst Home Economics Building and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, with the Roberts Hall group in the foreground, 1934.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library“Save Wheat,” Edward Penfi eld poster for the United States Food Administration, c.1914-18. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryForest Home Inn, Forest Home Drive, interior, between 1913-21 Ithaca City Market, between West State and West Seneca Streets, view to the north, c.1915. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Certifi cate of appreciation from the United States Food Administration to Martha Van Rensselaer, 1918. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Charles De Garmo, portrait. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Title page and Fig. 1 from Charles De Garmo, Aesthetic Education (1913). Credit: Cornell University Library 6 From the beginning, Van Rensselaer’s work had taken education into the homes of farm families. And even as home economics courses were offered on campus, she continued to share her knowledge, ideas and experience with the broader community, whether in local organizations or through state and national programs. In many of these endeavors, her expertise in administrative matters was complemented by that of her colleague Flora Rose in foods and nutrition. As members of the Ithaca chapter of the Housewives’ League, Van Rensselaer and Rose were active supporters of the Ithaca City Market, which opened in June 1913 on a leased site just east of Meadow Street between State and Seneca Streets. Envisioned as a benefi t to consumers, farmers and, through the farmers’ trade, local businessmen, the market was described by the Ithaca Journal as “the rendezvous of all classes and types of people.” Though the market association purchased property in the next block to the east and improved its facilities, the success of this enterprise would be limited by impacts associated with the expanding war in Europe as well as various community concerns. The United States’ entrance into the war in April 1917 brought challenges to the supply and distribution of food, given the reduced pool of farm labor and calls to share the nation’s harvests with our allies. To promote conservation, the United States Food Administration, an emergency program headed by Herbert Hoover, turned to patriotic volunteers and to posters such as that encouraging consumers to “Save Wheat.” After serving on a federal advisory body and working with county and state campaigns, Martha Van Rensselaer was appointed head of the Food Administration’s Home Conservation Division in March 1918, being granted a leave of absence from Cornell University to perform her duties in Washington. Van Rensselaer’s postwar activity was punctuated in 1923 by her League of Women Voters’ honor as one of the twelve greatest living American women. Both she and Rose spent time abroad that year, their work in child welfare earning recognition by the King of Belguim. In the years before her death in 1932 she was appointed by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Hoover to various committees and positions concerned with farming conditions, child health and home ownership. In sum, the signifi cance of Martha Van Rensselaer’s work rests not only in her role in the development of the College of Home Economics, but also in her ability to bring the lessons of this fi eld to individuals, homes and communities far beyond the Cornell University campus. 5 Drawing on the content of her Farmers’ Wives’ Reading Course, Martha Van Rensselaer developed on-campus courses in household management and institutional management. The latter, intended to help prepare women for employment outside the home, was augmented by several enterprises begun in the early 1910s that combined Van Rensselaer’s management perspective and Flora Rose’s expertise in foods and nutrition. Two on-campus eating establishments provided students with training in the purchase and preparation of food and in customer service. A cafeteria in the new Home Economics Building began regular operation in Spring 1913, while a University Club dining room, located in a former faculty residence on Central Avenue, opened in Fall 1914. During this same period, Van Rensselaer and Rose embarked on the fi rst of two off-campus ventures intended to offer job opportunities to graduates as well as practical experience to students. Their purchase of a tearoom in downtown Binghamton in 1911 focused on a food service type that became popular during the early twentieth century. Conceived as a place for leisurely dining and conversation, it was often accompanied by a gift shop featuring Oriental and other artistic items. In December 1913, having disposed of the Binghamton tearoom, the two women opened another in the hamlet of Forest Home, a short distance east of Beebe Lake. This former mill community within walking distance of the College of Agriculture had recently seen an infl ux of university faculty seeking convenient suburban residences. The building that Van Rensselaer and Rose selected and apparently rented had been designed by architect William H. Miller and erected in 1911, initially housing a grocery and a confectionery and ice cream parlor. Adapted by them as the Forest Home Inn, the tearoom and gift shop were decorated by two of their faculty colleagues and managed by a succession of women, a number of whom were recent Cornell graduates. Van Rensselaer and Rose purchased the building in 1915, and it remained in their ownership even as independent management took over operation of the Forest Home Inn in the late 1920s. 4 Whether measured by its course offerings, enrollment, faculty, or facilities, the program in home economics at Cornell University saw impressive growth during the career of Martha Van Rensselaer, initially within the College of Agriculture and then as a separate College of Home Economics. Under her initiative, on-campus classes were developed for resident students, even as she continued to supervise the farmers’ wives reading course and introduced a winter short-course. In 1907, Van Rensselaer was joined by faculty colleague Flora Rose, and together they began to plan course offerings in the new Department of Home Economics. Beyond the classroom, they encouraged the formation of a women’s agricultural club, Frigga Fylga, named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the earth. In 1911, the two women were recognized by the University Faculty who, “while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships,” voted to “interpose no objection to their appointment.” By 1913, with more than 100 students and a slight increase in teaching staff, there were physical signs of the program’s progress, the most notable being the new Home Economics Building, which incorporated not only classrooms and offi ces but also laboratories and a cafeteria that refl ected the department’s practical studies. Meanwhile, the extension faculty and staff enjoyed new outreach capabilities with the use of a railroad car fi tted up for traveling demonstrations and with the acquisition of an automobile. Though the growth of the program slowed during World War I, university trustees voted in 1919 to designate Home Economics as a School within the College of Agriculture, and soon sought state legislation to establish it as a separate College, achieving that goal in February 1925. The New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell, with more than 500 students, would have six departments—Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, Household Art, Household Management, Institution Management, and Family Life. Construction of a new building began in 1931, though little more than the steel work was completed before Van Rensselaer’s death on May 26, 1932. With some 500 rooms, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall opened for regular instruction in fall 1933, and has remained a witness to its namesake’s more than thirty years as an educator, even as the college became the College of Human Ecology in 1969. 3 Connections between the Van Rensselaer and De Garmo households and campus life went beyond the basic home-work relationship of their primary members. Leland Van Rensselaer, Martha’s older brother, advertised his downtown insurance business in the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1910-11, Martha Van Rensselaer used the off-campus location to explore what she envisioned as becoming a “pig business,” turning to faculty in animal husbandry for advice and assistance. Having obtained a pig from a Yates County breeder of Berkshires, she reported that it had rooted up all of the surrounding sod and was “the admiration of the entire household.” The De Garmo home was an occasional meeting place of a student temperance organization, the Somerset Y, while Mrs. De Garmo participated as a hostess or chairwoman at various events on campus. The couple’s younger son resided at home while attending Cornell, receiving his degree in 1909. Although the families on both sides of the double house accommodated renters, the scale of this activity at 811 East State Street was noteworthy. Cornell directories of 1910, for example, identifi ed four faculty and staff members, including Van Rensselaer, and at least eight students residing there; a contemporary photograph of the rear of the house shows a number of additions, likely made to expand dining and sleeping quarters. While this commercial enterprise was probably operated by Leland and/or his wife, Martha Van Rensselaer’s correspondence documents her interaction with various past tenants. One faculty resident, Flora Rose, became her close friend and home economics colleague. 2 In serving as faculty members at Cornell, Martha Van Rensselaer and Charles De Garmo not only taught classes and held administrative positions at the university but also participated in professional societies and published on both general and specifi c topics. As Supervisor of the Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives, Van Rensselaer wrote, edited and compiled bulletins and discussion papers on such subjects as “Saving Steps,” “Saving Strength” and “Home Sanitation,” encouraging women to analyze their daily activities and apply an understanding of economics and science in their operation of the household. An early member of the American Home Economics Association and its president in 1914-16, her articles appeared in such diverse publications as the Journal of Home Economics and Good Housekeeping; in the 1920s she served as editor of the homemaking department of the Delineator magazine. De Garmo, a member of several national educational associations, frequently lectured to state and municipal organizations of teachers and principals. A 1907 review of his Principles of Secondary Education ventured that “every student of education will be glad of the book,” a prediction seemingly borne out by its several reprintings and the subsequent publication of a new and enlarged edition. In Aesthetic Education of 1913, he demonstrated relationships between effi ciency and beauty in tools as well as between form and expression in poetry, urging teachers to promote “an aesthetic view of the world for every child. 1 From about 1901 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to the families of two Cornell University faculty members, educators who would be noted for their contributions on campus, in the local community and beyond. Martha Van Rensselaer, who would be instrumental in developing the Department and later the College of Home Economics, lived at 811 with her brother Leland and his wife. Charles De Garmo, Professor of the Science and Art of Education, resided at 809 with his wife Ida and their younger son, apparently renting their unit before Mrs. De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer jointly purchased the property in March 1902. Both households included varying numbers of roomers or boarders. Martha Van Rensselaer had graduated from the Chamberlain Institute in western New York State and had taught in her home community of Randolph before being elected a Cattaraugus County school commissioner. Her association with Cornell began in 1900, when she was called on by Liberty Hyde Bailey to develop a correspondence course for farmers’ wives that would complement the agricultural college’s extension work for farmers. Charles De Garmo, a Midwesterner, had received a doctoral degree in Germany, followed by university teaching in Illinois and the seven-year presidency of Swarthmore College before he was hired by Cornell in 1898 to lead its program in education. BA YOU ARE HERE Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double House Valentine House KEY A B North Credit: Frank SantelliVan Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street.Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: ikon.5 architectsView from Mitchell Street to the Williams, Valentine and Van Rensselaer-De Garmo houses. Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street, view from the east. The tinted concrete pavement in front of the present 809 East State Street marks the footprint of the front portion of the red brick double house that was erected there in 1895. Its owner, William L. Carey, had purchased his lot from members of the Valentine family, whose home was next door and whose property holdings along the south side of East State Street are recalled in the name of Valentine Place a short distance to the east.From about 1900 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to Cornell University faculty members Charles De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer. The De Garmo family resided in the western unit, while Van Rensselaer lived in the eastern portion with her brother Leland, his wife and a varying number of faculty, staff and students, including Van Rensselaer’s close friend and colleague Flora Rose. In 1914, Van Rensselaer and Rose moved to a house on campus, while De Garmo retired and moved to Florida with his wife, who transferred her share of the property to Martha Van Rensselaer in 1919. Leland Van Rensselaer continued to reside at 811 until his death in 1950, renting out as many as eight apartments in the building. [The Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house was demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE VAN RENSSELAER-DE GARMO DOUBLE HOUSE EDUCATION ON THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND Themes 1 & 2 Themes 1 & 2 Themes 3 & 4 Themes 5 & 6 6 Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Pages from the Bulletin on “Saving Strength,” Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives (March 1905). Notice (Nov. 26, 1912) of Somerset Y meeting at Prof. De Garmo’s home. Advertisement (Dec. 8, 1913) for the Forest Home Inn tearoom and gift shop.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryBerkshire pig at the rear of 809-811 East State Street, c.1910-11.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer, portrait. (next) Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, 811 (left) and 809 (right) East State Street.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer (left) and Flora Rose (right). Martha Van Rensselaer (seated, left foreground) and others with the fi rst Extension automobile, 1913, in front of the Home Economics Building (later Comstock Hall and subsequently the Computing and Communications Center).Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryFrigga Fylga members, with Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer (center, middle row), 1912.Credit: Cornell University LibraryCredit: Frank Santelli Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun (below) Text advertisement (Feb. 25, 1907) for Leland D. Van Rensselaer’s insurance business. Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Aerial view, including the fi rst Home Economics Building and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, with the Roberts Hall group in the foreground, 1934.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library“Save Wheat,” Edward Penfi eld poster for the United States Food Administration, c.1914-18. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryForest Home Inn, Forest Home Drive, interior, between 1913-21 Ithaca City Market, between West State and West Seneca Streets, view to the north, c.1915. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Certifi cate of appreciation from the United States Food Administration to Martha Van Rensselaer, 1918. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Charles De Garmo, portrait. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Title page and Fig. 1 from Charles De Garmo, Aesthetic Education (1913). Credit: Cornell University Library 6 From the beginning, Van Rensselaer’s work had taken education into the homes of farm families. And even as home economics courses were offered on campus, she continued to share her knowledge, ideas and experience with the broader community, whether in local organizations or through state and national programs. In many of these endeavors, her expertise in administrative matters was complemented by that of her colleague Flora Rose in foods and nutrition. As members of the Ithaca chapter of the Housewives’ League, Van Rensselaer and Rose were active supporters of the Ithaca City Market, which opened in June 1913 on a leased site just east of Meadow Street between State and Seneca Streets. Envisioned as a benefi t to consumers, farmers and, through the farmers’ trade, local businessmen, the market was described by the Ithaca Journal as “the rendezvous of all classes and types of people.” Though the market association purchased property in the next block to the east and improved its facilities, the success of this enterprise would be limited by impacts associated with the expanding war in Europe as well as various community concerns. The United States’ entrance into the war in April 1917 brought challenges to the supply and distribution of food, given the reduced pool of farm labor and calls to share the nation’s harvests with our allies. To promote conservation, the United States Food Administration, an emergency program headed by Herbert Hoover, turned to patriotic volunteers and to posters such as that encouraging consumers to “Save Wheat.” After serving on a federal advisory body and working with county and state campaigns, Martha Van Rensselaer was appointed head of the Food Administration’s Home Conservation Division in March 1918, being granted a leave of absence from Cornell University to perform her duties in Washington. Van Rensselaer’s postwar activity was punctuated in 1923 by her League of Women Voters’ honor as one of the twelve greatest living American women. Both she and Rose spent time abroad that year, their work in child welfare earning recognition by the King of Belguim. In the years before her death in 1932 she was appointed by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Hoover to various committees and positions concerned with farming conditions, child health and home ownership. In sum, the signifi cance of Martha Van Rensselaer’s work rests not only in her role in the development of the College of Home Economics, but also in her ability to bring the lessons of this fi eld to individuals, homes and communities far beyond the Cornell University campus. 5 Drawing on the content of her Farmers’ Wives’ Reading Course, Martha Van Rensselaer developed on-campus courses in household management and institutional management. The latter, intended to help prepare women for employment outside the home, was augmented by several enterprises begun in the early 1910s that combined Van Rensselaer’s management perspective and Flora Rose’s expertise in foods and nutrition. Two on-campus eating establishments provided students with training in the purchase and preparation of food and in customer service. A cafeteria in the new Home Economics Building began regular operation in Spring 1913, while a University Club dining room, located in a former faculty residence on Central Avenue, opened in Fall 1914. During this same period, Van Rensselaer and Rose embarked on the fi rst of two off-campus ventures intended to offer job opportunities to graduates as well as practical experience to students. Their purchase of a tearoom in downtown Binghamton in 1911 focused on a food service type that became popular during the early twentieth century. Conceived as a place for leisurely dining and conversation, it was often accompanied by a gift shop featuring Oriental and other artistic items. In December 1913, having disposed of the Binghamton tearoom, the two women opened another in the hamlet of Forest Home, a short distance east of Beebe Lake. This former mill community within walking distance of the College of Agriculture had recently seen an infl ux of university faculty seeking convenient suburban residences. The building that Van Rensselaer and Rose selected and apparently rented had been designed by architect William H. Miller and erected in 1911, initially housing a grocery and a confectionery and ice cream parlor. Adapted by them as the Forest Home Inn, the tearoom and gift shop were decorated by two of their faculty colleagues and managed by a succession of women, a number of whom were recent Cornell graduates. Van Rensselaer and Rose purchased the building in 1915, and it remained in their ownership even as independent management took over operation of the Forest Home Inn in the late 1920s. 4 Whether measured by its course offerings, enrollment, faculty, or facilities, the program in home economics at Cornell University saw impressive growth during the career of Martha Van Rensselaer, initially within the College of Agriculture and then as a separate College of Home Economics. Under her initiative, on-campus classes were developed for resident students, even as she continued to supervise the farmers’ wives reading course and introduced a winter short-course. In 1907, Van Rensselaer was joined by faculty colleague Flora Rose, and together they began to plan course offerings in the new Department of Home Economics. Beyond the classroom, they encouraged the formation of a women’s agricultural club, Frigga Fylga, named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the earth. In 1911, the two women were recognized by the University Faculty who, “while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships,” voted to “interpose no objection to their appointment.” By 1913, with more than 100 students and a slight increase in teaching staff, there were physical signs of the program’s progress, the most notable being the new Home Economics Building, which incorporated not only classrooms and offi ces but also laboratories and a cafeteria that refl ected the department’s practical studies. Meanwhile, the extension faculty and staff enjoyed new outreach capabilities with the use of a railroad car fi tted up for traveling demonstrations and with the acquisition of an automobile. Though the growth of the program slowed during World War I, university trustees voted in 1919 to designate Home Economics as a School within the College of Agriculture, and soon sought state legislation to establish it as a separate College, achieving that goal in February 1925. The New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell, with more than 500 students, would have six departments—Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, Household Art, Household Management, Institution Management, and Family Life. Construction of a new building began in 1931, though little more than the steel work was completed before Van Rensselaer’s death on May 26, 1932. With some 500 rooms, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall opened for regular instruction in fall 1933, and has remained a witness to its namesake’s more than thirty years as an educator, even as the college became the College of Human Ecology in 1969. 3 Connections between the Van Rensselaer and De Garmo households and campus life went beyond the basic home-work relationship of their primary members. Leland Van Rensselaer, Martha’s older brother, advertised his downtown insurance business in the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1910-11, Martha Van Rensselaer used the off-campus location to explore what she envisioned as becoming a “pig business,” turning to faculty in animal husbandry for advice and assistance. Having obtained a pig from a Yates County breeder of Berkshires, she reported that it had rooted up all of the surrounding sod and was “the admiration of the entire household.” The De Garmo home was an occasional meeting place of a student temperance organization, the Somerset Y, while Mrs. De Garmo participated as a hostess or chairwoman at various events on campus. The couple’s younger son resided at home while attending Cornell, receiving his degree in 1909. Although the families on both sides of the double house accommodated renters, the scale of this activity at 811 East State Street was noteworthy. Cornell directories of 1910, for example, identifi ed four faculty and staff members, including Van Rensselaer, and at least eight students residing there; a contemporary photograph of the rear of the house shows a number of additions, likely made to expand dining and sleeping quarters. While this commercial enterprise was probably operated by Leland and/or his wife, Martha Van Rensselaer’s correspondence documents her interaction with various past tenants. One faculty resident, Flora Rose, became her close friend and home economics colleague. 2 In serving as faculty members at Cornell, Martha Van Rensselaer and Charles De Garmo not only taught classes and held administrative positions at the university but also participated in professional societies and published on both general and specifi c topics. As Supervisor of the Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives, Van Rensselaer wrote, edited and compiled bulletins and discussion papers on such subjects as “Saving Steps,” “Saving Strength” and “Home Sanitation,” encouraging women to analyze their daily activities and apply an understanding of economics and science in their operation of the household. An early member of the American Home Economics Association and its president in 1914- 16, her articles appeared in such diverse publications as the Journal of Home Economics and Good Housekeeping; in the 1920s she served as editor of the homemaking department of the Delineator magazine. De Garmo, a member of several national educational associations, frequently lectured to state and municipal organizations of teachers and principals. A 1907 review of his Principles of Secondary Education ventured that “every student of education will be glad of the book,” a prediction seemingly borne out by its several reprintings and the subsequent publication of a new and enlarged edition. In Aesthetic Education of 1913, he demonstrated relationships between effi ciency and beauty in tools as well as between form and expression in poetry, urging teachers to promote “an aesthetic view of the world for every child. 1From about 1901 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to the families of two Cornell University faculty members, educators who would be noted for their contributions on campus, in the local community and beyond. Martha Van Rensselaer, who would be instrumental in developing the Department and later the College of Home Economics, lived at 811 with her brother Leland and his wife. Charles De Garmo, Professor of the Science and Art of Education, resided at 809 with his wife Ida and their younger son, apparently renting their unit before Mrs. De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer jointly purchased the property in March 1902. Both households included varying numbers of roomers or boarders. Martha Van Rensselaer had graduated from the Chamberlain Institute in western New York State and had taught in her home community of Randolph before being elected a Cattaraugus County school commissioner. Her association with Cornell began in 1900, when she was called on by Liberty Hyde Bailey to develop a correspondence course for farmers’ wives that would complement the agricultural college’s extension work for farmers. Charles De Garmo, a Midwesterner, had received a doctoral degree in Germany, followed by university teaching in Illinois and the seven-year presidency of Swarthmore College before he was hired by Cornell in 1898 to lead its program in education. BA YOU ARE HERE Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double House Valentine House KEY A B North Credit: Frank SantelliVan Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street.Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: ikon.5 architectsView from Mitchell Street to the Williams, Valentine and Van Rensselaer-De Garmo houses. Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street, view from the east. The tinted concrete pavement in front of the present 809 East State Street marks the footprint of the front portion of the red brick double house that was erected there in 1895. Its owner, William L. Carey, had purchased his lot from members of the Valentine family, whose home was next door and whose property holdings along the south side of East State Street are recalled in the name of Valentine Place a short distance to the east. From about 1900 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to Cornell University faculty members Charles De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer. The De Garmo family resided in the western unit, while Van Rensselaer lived in the eastern portion with her brother Leland, his wife and a varying number of faculty, staff and students, including Van Rensselaer’s close friend and colleague Flora Rose. In 1914, Van Rensselaer and Rose moved to a house on campus, while De Garmo retired and moved to Florida with his wife, who transferred her share of the property to Martha Van Rensselaer in 1919. Leland Van Rensselaer continued to reside at 811 until his death in 1950, renting out as many as eight apartments in the building. [The Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house was demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE VAN RENSSELAER-DE GARMO DOUBLE HOUSE EDUCATION ON THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Pages from the Bulletin on “Saving Strength,” Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives (March 1905). Notice (Nov. 26, 1912) of Somerset Y meeting at Prof. De Garmo’s home. Advertisement (Dec. 8, 1913) for the Forest Home Inn tearoom and gift shop.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryBerkshire pig at the rear of 809-811 East State Street, c.1910-11.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer, portrait. (next) Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, 811 (left) and 809 (right) East State Street.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer (left) and Flora Rose (right). Martha Van Rensselaer (seated, left foreground) and others with the fi rst Extension automobile, 1913, in front of the Home Economics Building (later Comstock Hall and subsequently the Computing and Communications Center).Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryFrigga Fylga members, with Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer (center, middle row), 1912.Credit: Cornell University LibraryCredit: Frank Santelli Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun (below) Text advertisement (Feb. 25, 1907) for Leland D. Van Rensselaer’s insurance business. Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Aerial view, including the fi rst Home Economics Building and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, with the Roberts Hall group in the foreground, 1934.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library“Save Wheat,” Edward Penfi eld poster for the United States Food Administration, c.1914-18. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryForest Home Inn, Forest Home Drive, interior, between 1913-21 Ithaca City Market, between West State and West Seneca Streets, view to the north, c.1915. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Certifi cate of appreciation from the United States Food Administration to Martha Van Rensselaer, 1918. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Charles De Garmo, portrait.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Title page and Fig. 1 from Charles De Garmo, Aesthetic Education (1913). Credit: Cornell University Library 6 From the beginning, Van Rensselaer’s work had taken education into the homes of farm families. And even as home economics courses were offered on campus, she continued to share her knowledge, ideas and experience with the broader community, whether in local organizations or through state and national programs. In many of these endeavors, her expertise in administrative matters was complemented by that of her colleague Flora Rose in foods and nutrition. As members of the Ithaca chapter of the Housewives’ League, Van Rensselaer and Rose were active supporters of the Ithaca City Market, which opened in June 1913 on a leased site just east of Meadow Street between State and Seneca Streets. Envisioned as a benefi t to consumers, farmers and, through the farmers’ trade, local businessmen, the market was described by the Ithaca Journal as “the rendezvous of all classes and types of people.” Though the market association purchased property in the next block to the east and improved its facilities, the success of this enterprise would be limited by impacts associated with the expanding war in Europe as well as various community concerns. The United States’ entrance into the war in April 1917 brought challenges to the supply and distribution of food, given the reduced pool of farm labor and calls to share the nation’s harvests with our allies. To promote conservation, the United States Food Administration, an emergency program headed by Herbert Hoover, turned to patriotic volunteers and to posters such as that encouraging consumers to “Save Wheat.” After serving on a federal advisory body and working with county and state campaigns, Martha Van Rensselaer was appointed head of the Food Administration’s Home Conservation Division in March 1918, being granted a leave of absence from Cornell University to perform her duties in Washington. Van Rensselaer’s postwar activity was punctuated in 1923 by her League of Women Voters’ honor as one of the twelve greatest living American women. Both she and Rose spent time abroad that year, their work in child welfare earning recognition by the King of Belguim. In the years before her death in 1932 she was appointed by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Hoover to various committees and positions concerned with farming conditions, child health and home ownership. In sum, the signifi cance of Martha Van Rensselaer’s work rests not only in her role in the development of the College of Home Economics, but also in her ability to bring the lessons of this fi eld to individuals, homes and communities far beyond the Cornell University campus. 5 Drawing on the content of her Farmers’ Wives’ Reading Course, Martha Van Rensselaer developed on-campus courses in household management and institutional management. The latter, intended to help prepare women for employment outside the home, was augmented by several enterprises begun in the early 1910s that combined Van Rensselaer’s management perspective and Flora Rose’s expertise in foods and nutrition. Two on-campus eating establishments provided students with training in the purchase and preparation of food and in customer service. A cafeteria in the new Home Economics Building began regular operation in Spring 1913, while a University Club dining room, located in a former faculty residence on Central Avenue, opened in Fall 1914. During this same period, Van Rensselaer and Rose embarked on the fi rst of two off-campus ventures intended to offer job opportunities to graduates as well as practical experience to students. Their purchase of a tearoom in downtown Binghamton in 1911 focused on a food service type that became popular during the early twentieth century. Conceived as a place for leisurely dining and conversation, it was often accompanied by a gift shop featuring Oriental and other artistic items. In December 1913, having disposed of the Binghamton tearoom, the two women opened another in the hamlet of Forest Home, a short distance east of Beebe Lake. This former mill community within walking distance of the College of Agriculture had recently seen an infl ux of university faculty seeking convenient suburban residences. The building that Van Rensselaer and Rose selected and apparently rented had been designed by architect William H. Miller and erected in 1911, initially housing a grocery and a confectionery and ice cream parlor. Adapted by them as the Forest Home Inn, the tearoom and gift shop were decorated by two of their faculty colleagues and managed by a succession of women, a number of whom were recent Cornell graduates. Van Rensselaer and Rose purchased the building in 1915, and it remained in their ownership even as independent management took over operation of the Forest Home Inn in the late 1920s. 4 Whether measured by its course offerings, enrollment, faculty, or facilities, the program in home economics at Cornell University saw impressive growth during the career of Martha Van Rensselaer, initially within the College of Agriculture and then as a separate College of Home Economics. Under her initiative, on-campus classes were developed for resident students, even as she continued to supervise the farmers’ wives reading course and introduced a winter short-course. In 1907, Van Rensselaer was joined by faculty colleague Flora Rose, and together they began to plan course offerings in the new Department of Home Economics. Beyond the classroom, they encouraged the formation of a women’s agricultural club, Frigga Fylga, named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the earth. In 1911, the two women were recognized by the University Faculty who, “while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships,” voted to “interpose no objection to their appointment.” By 1913, with more than 100 students and a slight increase in teaching staff, there were physical signs of the program’s progress, the most notable being the new Home Economics Building, which incorporated not only classrooms and offi ces but also laboratories and a cafeteria that refl ected the department’s practical studies. Meanwhile, the extension faculty and staff enjoyed new outreach capabilities with the use of a railroad car fi tted up for traveling demonstrations and with the acquisition of an automobile. Though the growth of the program slowed during World War I, university trustees voted in 1919 to designate Home Economics as a School within the College of Agriculture, and soon sought state legislation to establish it as a separate College, achieving that goal in February 1925. The New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell, with more than 500 students, would have six departments—Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, Household Art, Household Management, Institution Management, and Family Life. Construction of a new building began in 1931, though little more than the steel work was completed before Van Rensselaer’s death on May 26, 1932. With some 500 rooms, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall opened for regular instruction in fall 1933, and has remained a witness to its namesake’s more than thirty years as an educator, even as the college became the College of Human Ecology in 1969. 3 Connections between the Van Rensselaer and De Garmo households and campus life went beyond the basic home-work relationship of their primary members. Leland Van Rensselaer, Martha’s older brother, advertised his downtown insurance business in the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1910-11, Martha Van Rensselaer used the off-campus location to explore what she envisioned as becoming a “pig business,” turning to faculty in animal husbandry for advice and assistance. Having obtained a pig from a Yates County breeder of Berkshires, she reported that it had rooted up all of the surrounding sod and was “the admiration of the entire household.” The De Garmo home was an occasional meeting place of a student temperance organization, the Somerset Y, while Mrs. De Garmo participated as a hostess or chairwoman at various events on campus. The couple’s younger son resided at home while attending Cornell, receiving his degree in 1909. Although the families on both sides of the double house accommodated renters, the scale of this activity at 811 East State Street was noteworthy. Cornell directories of 1910, for example, identifi ed four faculty and staff members, including Van Rensselaer, and at least eight students residing there; a contemporary photograph of the rear of the house shows a number of additions, likely made to expand dining and sleeping quarters. While this commercial enterprise was probably operated by Leland and/or his wife, Martha Van Rensselaer’s correspondence documents her interaction with various past tenants. One faculty resident, Flora Rose, became her close friend and home economics colleague. 2 In serving as faculty members at Cornell, Martha Van Rensselaer and Charles De Garmo not only taught classes and held administrative positions at the university but also participated in professional societies and published on both general and specifi c topics. As Supervisor of the Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives, Van Rensselaer wrote, edited and compiled bulletins and discussion papers on such subjects as “Saving Steps,” “Saving Strength” and “Home Sanitation,” encouraging women to analyze their daily activities and apply an understanding of economics and science in their operation of the household. An early member of the American Home Economics Association and its president in 1914-16, her articles appeared in such diverse publications as the Journal of Home Economics and Good Housekeeping; in the 1920s she served as editor of the homemaking department of the Delineator magazine. De Garmo, a member of several national educational associations, frequently lectured to state and municipal organizations of teachers and principals. A 1907 review of his Principles of Secondary Education ventured that “every student of education will be glad of the book,” a prediction seemingly borne out by its several reprintings and the subsequent publication of a new and enlarged edition. In Aesthetic Education of 1913, he demonstrated relationships between effi ciency and beauty in tools as well as between form and expression in poetry, urging teachers to promote “an aesthetic view of the world for every child. 1 From about 1901 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to the families of two Cornell University faculty members, educators who would be noted for their contributions on campus, in the local community and beyond. Martha Van Rensselaer, who would be instrumental in developing the Department and later the College of Home Economics, lived at 811 with her brother Leland and his wife. Charles De Garmo, Professor of the Science and Art of Education, resided at 809 with his wife Ida and their younger son, apparently renting their unit before Mrs. De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer jointly purchased the property in March 1902. Both households included varying numbers of roomers or boarders. Martha Van Rensselaer had graduated from the Chamberlain Institute in western New York State and had taught in her home community of Randolph before being elected a Cattaraugus County school commissioner. Her association with Cornell began in 1900, when she was called on by Liberty Hyde Bailey to develop a correspondence course for farmers’ wives that would complement the agricultural college’s extension work for farmers. Charles De Garmo, a Midwesterner, had received a doctoral degree in Germany, followed by university teaching in Illinois and the seven-year presidency of Swarthmore College before he was hired by Cornell in 1898 to lead its program in education. BA YOU ARE HERE Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double HouseValentine House KEY A B North Credit: Frank SantelliVan Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street.Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: ikon.5 architectsView from Mitchell Street to the Williams, Valentine and Van Rensselaer-De Garmo houses. Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street, view from the east. The tinted concrete pavement in front of the present 809 East State Street marks the footprint of the front portion of the red brick double house that was erected there in 1895. Its owner, William L. Carey, had purchased his lot from members of the Valentine family, whose home was next door and whose property holdings along the south side of East State Street are recalled in the name of Valentine Place a short distance to the east.From about 1900 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to Cornell University faculty members Charles De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer. The De Garmo family resided in the western unit, while Van Rensselaer lived in the eastern portion with her brother Leland, his wife and a varying number of faculty, staff and students, including Van Rensselaer’s close friend and colleague Flora Rose. In 1914, Van Rensselaer and Rose moved to a house on campus, while De Garmo retired and moved to Florida with his wife, who transferred her share of the property to Martha Van Rensselaer in 1919. Leland Van Rensselaer continued to reside at 811 until his death in 1950, renting out as many as eight apartments in the building. [The Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house was demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE VAN RENSSELAER-DE GARMO DOUBLE HOUSE EDUCATION ON THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND Themes 1 & 2 Themes 3 & 4 Themes 5 & 6 Themes 3 & 4 7 Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Pages from the Bulletin on “Saving Strength,” Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives (March 1905). Notice (Nov. 26, 1912) of Somerset Y meeting at Prof. De Garmo’s home. Advertisement (Dec. 8, 1913) for the Forest Home Inn tearoom and gift shop.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryBerkshire pig at the rear of 809-811 East State Street, c.1910-11.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer, portrait. (next) Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, 811 (left) and 809 (right) East State Street.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer (left) and Flora Rose (right). Martha Van Rensselaer (seated, left foreground) and others with the fi rst Extension automobile, 1913, in front of the Home Economics Building (later Comstock Hall and subsequently the Computing and Communications Center).Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryFrigga Fylga members, with Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer (center, middle row), 1912.Credit: Cornell University LibraryCredit: Frank Santelli Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun (below) Text advertisement (Feb. 25, 1907) for Leland D. Van Rensselaer’s insurance business. Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Aerial view, including the fi rst Home Economics Building and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, with the Roberts Hall group in the foreground, 1934.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library“Save Wheat,” Edward Penfi eld poster for the United States Food Administration, c.1914-18. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryForest Home Inn, Forest Home Drive, interior, between 1913-21 Ithaca City Market, between West State and West Seneca Streets, view to the north, c.1915. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Certifi cate of appreciation from the United States Food Administration to Martha Van Rensselaer, 1918. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Charles De Garmo, portrait. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Title page and Fig. 1 from Charles De Garmo, Aesthetic Education (1913). Credit: Cornell University Library 6 From the beginning, Van Rensselaer’s work had taken education into the homes of farm families. And even as home economics courses were offered on campus, she continued to share her knowledge, ideas and experience with the broader community, whether in local organizations or through state and national programs. In many of these endeavors, her expertise in administrative matters was complemented by that of her colleague Flora Rose in foods and nutrition. As members of the Ithaca chapter of the Housewives’ League, Van Rensselaer and Rose were active supporters of the Ithaca City Market, which opened in June 1913 on a leased site just east of Meadow Street between State and Seneca Streets. Envisioned as a benefi t to consumers, farmers and, through the farmers’ trade, local businessmen, the market was described by the Ithaca Journal as “the rendezvous of all classes and types of people.” Though the market association purchased property in the next block to the east and improved its facilities, the success of this enterprise would be limited by impacts associated with the expanding war in Europe as well as various community concerns. The United States’ entrance into the war in April 1917 brought challenges to the supply and distribution of food, given the reduced pool of farm labor and calls to share the nation’s harvests with our allies. To promote conservation, the United States Food Administration, an emergency program headed by Herbert Hoover, turned to patriotic volunteers and to posters such as that encouraging consumers to “Save Wheat.” After serving on a federal advisory body and working with county and state campaigns, Martha Van Rensselaer was appointed head of the Food Administration’s Home Conservation Division in March 1918, being granted a leave of absence from Cornell University to perform her duties in Washington. Van Rensselaer’s postwar activity was punctuated in 1923 by her League of Women Voters’ honor as one of the twelve greatest living American women. Both she and Rose spent time abroad that year, their work in child welfare earning recognition by the King of Belguim. In the years before her death in 1932 she was appointed by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Hoover to various committees and positions concerned with farming conditions, child health and home ownership. In sum, the signifi cance of Martha Van Rensselaer’s work rests not only in her role in the development of the College of Home Economics, but also in her ability to bring the lessons of this fi eld to individuals, homes and communities far beyond the Cornell University campus. 5 Drawing on the content of her Farmers’ Wives’ Reading Course, Martha Van Rensselaer developed on-campus courses in household management and institutional management. The latter, intended to help prepare women for employment outside the home, was augmented by several enterprises begun in the early 1910s that combined Van Rensselaer’s management perspective and Flora Rose’s expertise in foods and nutrition. Two on-campus eating establishments provided students with training in the purchase and preparation of food and in customer service. A cafeteria in the new Home Economics Building began regular operation in Spring 1913, while a University Club dining room, located in a former faculty residence on Central Avenue, opened in Fall 1914. During this same period, Van Rensselaer and Rose embarked on the fi rst of two off-campus ventures intended to offer job opportunities to graduates as well as practical experience to students. Their purchase of a tearoom in downtown Binghamton in 1911 focused on a food service type that became popular during the early twentieth century. Conceived as a place for leisurely dining and conversation, it was often accompanied by a gift shop featuring Oriental and other artistic items. In December 1913, having disposed of the Binghamton tearoom, the two women opened another in the hamlet of Forest Home, a short distance east of Beebe Lake. This former mill community within walking distance of the College of Agriculture had recently seen an infl ux of university faculty seeking convenient suburban residences. The building that Van Rensselaer and Rose selected and apparently rented had been designed by architect William H. Miller and erected in 1911, initially housing a grocery and a confectionery and ice cream parlor. Adapted by them as the Forest Home Inn, the tearoom and gift shop were decorated by two of their faculty colleagues and managed by a succession of women, a number of whom were recent Cornell graduates. Van Rensselaer and Rose purchased the building in 1915, and it remained in their ownership even as independent management took over operation of the Forest Home Inn in the late 1920s. 4 Whether measured by its course offerings, enrollment, faculty, or facilities, the program in home economics at Cornell University saw impressive growth during the career of Martha Van Rensselaer, initially within the College of Agriculture and then as a separate College of Home Economics. Under her initiative, on-campus classes were developed for resident students, even as she continued to supervise the farmers’ wives reading course and introduced a winter short-course. In 1907, Van Rensselaer was joined by faculty colleague Flora Rose, and together they began to plan course offerings in the new Department of Home Economics. Beyond the classroom, they encouraged the formation of a women’s agricultural club, Frigga Fylga, named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the earth. In 1911, the two women were recognized by the University Faculty who, “while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships,” voted to “interpose no objection to their appointment.” By 1913, with more than 100 students and a slight increase in teaching staff, there were physical signs of the program’s progress, the most notable being the new Home Economics Building, which incorporated not only classrooms and offi ces but also laboratories and a cafeteria that refl ected the department’s practical studies. Meanwhile, the extension faculty and staff enjoyed new outreach capabilities with the use of a railroad car fi tted up for traveling demonstrations and with the acquisition of an automobile. Though the growth of the program slowed during World War I, university trustees voted in 1919 to designate Home Economics as a School within the College of Agriculture, and soon sought state legislation to establish it as a separate College, achieving that goal in February 1925. The New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell, with more than 500 students, would have six departments—Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, Household Art, Household Management, Institution Management, and Family Life. Construction of a new building began in 1931, though little more than the steel work was completed before Van Rensselaer’s death on May 26, 1932. With some 500 rooms, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall opened for regular instruction in fall 1933, and has remained a witness to its namesake’s more than thirty years as an educator, even as the college became the College of Human Ecology in 1969. 3 Connections between the Van Rensselaer and De Garmo households and campus life went beyond the basic home-work relationship of their primary members. Leland Van Rensselaer, Martha’s older brother, advertised his downtown insurance business in the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1910-11, Martha Van Rensselaer used the off-campus location to explore what she envisioned as becoming a “pig business,” turning to faculty in animal husbandry for advice and assistance. Having obtained a pig from a Yates County breeder of Berkshires, she reported that it had rooted up all of the surrounding sod and was “the admiration of the entire household.” The De Garmo home was an occasional meeting place of a student temperance organization, the Somerset Y, while Mrs. De Garmo participated as a hostess or chairwoman at various events on campus. The couple’s younger son resided at home while attending Cornell, receiving his degree in 1909. Although the families on both sides of the double house accommodated renters, the scale of this activity at 811 East State Street was noteworthy. Cornell directories of 1910, for example, identifi ed four faculty and staff members, including Van Rensselaer, and at least eight students residing there; a contemporary photograph of the rear of the house shows a number of additions, likely made to expand dining and sleeping quarters. While this commercial enterprise was probably operated by Leland and/or his wife, Martha Van Rensselaer’s correspondence documents her interaction with various past tenants. One faculty resident, Flora Rose, became her close friend and home economics colleague. 2 In serving as faculty members at Cornell, Martha Van Rensselaer and Charles De Garmo not only taught classes and held administrative positions at the university but also participated in professional societies and published on both general and specifi c topics. As Supervisor of the Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives, Van Rensselaer wrote, edited and compiled bulletins and discussion papers on such subjects as “Saving Steps,” “Saving Strength” and “Home Sanitation,” encouraging women to analyze their daily activities and apply an understanding of economics and science in their operation of the household. An early member of the American Home Economics Association and its president in 1914- 16, her articles appeared in such diverse publications as the Journal of Home Economics and Good Housekeeping; in the 1920s she served as editor of the homemaking department of the Delineator magazine. De Garmo, a member of several national educational associations, frequently lectured to state and municipal organizations of teachers and principals. A 1907 review of his Principles of Secondary Education ventured that “every student of education will be glad of the book,” a prediction seemingly borne out by its several reprintings and the subsequent publication of a new and enlarged edition. In Aesthetic Education of 1913, he demonstrated relationships between effi ciency and beauty in tools as well as between form and expression in poetry, urging teachers to promote “an aesthetic view of the world for every child. 1From about 1901 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to the families of two Cornell University faculty members, educators who would be noted for their contributions on campus, in the local community and beyond. Martha Van Rensselaer, who would be instrumental in developing the Department and later the College of Home Economics, lived at 811 with her brother Leland and his wife. Charles De Garmo, Professor of the Science and Art of Education, resided at 809 with his wife Ida and their younger son, apparently renting their unit before Mrs. De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer jointly purchased the property in March 1902. Both households included varying numbers of roomers or boarders. Martha Van Rensselaer had graduated from the Chamberlain Institute in western New York State and had taught in her home community of Randolph before being elected a Cattaraugus County school commissioner. Her association with Cornell began in 1900, when she was called on by Liberty Hyde Bailey to develop a correspondence course for farmers’ wives that would complement the agricultural college’s extension work for farmers. Charles De Garmo, a Midwesterner, had received a doctoral degree in Germany, followed by university teaching in Illinois and the seven-year presidency of Swarthmore College before he was hired by Cornell in 1898 to lead its program in education. BA YOU ARE HERE Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double House Valentine House KEY A B North Credit: Frank SantelliVan Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street.Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: ikon.5 architectsView from Mitchell Street to the Williams, Valentine and Van Rensselaer-De Garmo houses. Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street, view from the east. The tinted concrete pavement in front of the present 809 East State Street marks the footprint of the front portion of the red brick double house that was erected there in 1895. Its owner, William L. Carey, had purchased his lot from members of the Valentine family, whose home was next door and whose property holdings along the south side of East State Street are recalled in the name of Valentine Place a short distance to the east. From about 1900 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to Cornell University faculty members Charles De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer. The De Garmo family resided in the western unit, while Van Rensselaer lived in the eastern portion with her brother Leland, his wife and a varying number of faculty, staff and students, including Van Rensselaer’s close friend and colleague Flora Rose. In 1914, Van Rensselaer and Rose moved to a house on campus, while De Garmo retired and moved to Florida with his wife, who transferred her share of the property to Martha Van Rensselaer in 1919. Leland Van Rensselaer continued to reside at 811 until his death in 1950, renting out as many as eight apartments in the building. [The Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house was demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE VAN RENSSELAER-DE GARMO DOUBLE HOUSE EDUCATION ON THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Pages from the Bulletin on “Saving Strength,” Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives (March 1905). Notice (Nov. 26, 1912) of Somerset Y meeting at Prof. De Garmo’s home. Advertisement (Dec. 8, 1913) for the Forest Home Inn tearoom and gift shop.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryBerkshire pig at the rear of 809-811 East State Street, c.1910-11.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer, portrait. (next) Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, 811 (left) and 809 (right) East State Street.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryMartha Van Rensselaer (left) and Flora Rose (right). Martha Van Rensselaer (seated, left foreground) and others with the fi rst Extension automobile, 1913, in front of the Home Economics Building (later Comstock Hall and subsequently the Computing and Communications Center).Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryFrigga Fylga members, with Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer (center, middle row), 1912.Credit: Cornell University LibraryCredit: Frank Santelli Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun (below) Text advertisement (Feb. 25, 1907) for Leland D. Van Rensselaer’s insurance business. Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Aerial view, including the fi rst Home Economics Building and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, with the Roberts Hall group in the foreground, 1934.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library“Save Wheat,” Edward Penfi eld poster for the United States Food Administration, c.1914-18. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Credit: Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryForest Home Inn, Forest Home Drive, interior, between 1913-21 Ithaca City Market, between West State and West Seneca Streets, view to the north, c.1915. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Certifi cate of appreciation from the United States Food Administration to Martha Van Rensselaer, 1918. Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Charles De Garmo, portrait.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Title page and Fig. 1 from Charles De Garmo, Aesthetic Education (1913). Credit: Cornell University Library 6 From the beginning, Van Rensselaer’s work had taken education into the homes of farm families. And even as home economics courses were offered on campus, she continued to share her knowledge, ideas and experience with the broader community, whether in local organizations or through state and national programs. In many of these endeavors, her expertise in administrative matters was complemented by that of her colleague Flora Rose in foods and nutrition. As members of the Ithaca chapter of the Housewives’ League, Van Rensselaer and Rose were active supporters of the Ithaca City Market, which opened in June 1913 on a leased site just east of Meadow Street between State and Seneca Streets. Envisioned as a benefi t to consumers, farmers and, through the farmers’ trade, local businessmen, the market was described by the Ithaca Journal as “the rendezvous of all classes and types of people.” Though the market association purchased property in the next block to the east and improved its facilities, the success of this enterprise would be limited by impacts associated with the expanding war in Europe as well as various community concerns. The United States’ entrance into the war in April 1917 brought challenges to the supply and distribution of food, given the reduced pool of farm labor and calls to share the nation’s harvests with our allies. To promote conservation, the United States Food Administration, an emergency program headed by Herbert Hoover, turned to patriotic volunteers and to posters such as that encouraging consumers to “Save Wheat.” After serving on a federal advisory body and working with county and state campaigns, Martha Van Rensselaer was appointed head of the Food Administration’s Home Conservation Division in March 1918, being granted a leave of absence from Cornell University to perform her duties in Washington. Van Rensselaer’s postwar activity was punctuated in 1923 by her League of Women Voters’ honor as one of the twelve greatest living American women. Both she and Rose spent time abroad that year, their work in child welfare earning recognition by the King of Belguim. In the years before her death in 1932 she was appointed by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Hoover to various committees and positions concerned with farming conditions, child health and home ownership. In sum, the signifi cance of Martha Van Rensselaer’s work rests not only in her role in the development of the College of Home Economics, but also in her ability to bring the lessons of this fi eld to individuals, homes and communities far beyond the Cornell University campus. 5 Drawing on the content of her Farmers’ Wives’ Reading Course, Martha Van Rensselaer developed on-campus courses in household management and institutional management. The latter, intended to help prepare women for employment outside the home, was augmented by several enterprises begun in the early 1910s that combined Van Rensselaer’s management perspective and Flora Rose’s expertise in foods and nutrition. Two on-campus eating establishments provided students with training in the purchase and preparation of food and in customer service. A cafeteria in the new Home Economics Building began regular operation in Spring 1913, while a University Club dining room, located in a former faculty residence on Central Avenue, opened in Fall 1914. During this same period, Van Rensselaer and Rose embarked on the fi rst of two off-campus ventures intended to offer job opportunities to graduates as well as practical experience to students. Their purchase of a tearoom in downtown Binghamton in 1911 focused on a food service type that became popular during the early twentieth century. Conceived as a place for leisurely dining and conversation, it was often accompanied by a gift shop featuring Oriental and other artistic items. In December 1913, having disposed of the Binghamton tearoom, the two women opened another in the hamlet of Forest Home, a short distance east of Beebe Lake. This former mill community within walking distance of the College of Agriculture had recently seen an infl ux of university faculty seeking convenient suburban residences. The building that Van Rensselaer and Rose selected and apparently rented had been designed by architect William H. Miller and erected in 1911, initially housing a grocery and a confectionery and ice cream parlor. Adapted by them as the Forest Home Inn, the tearoom and gift shop were decorated by two of their faculty colleagues and managed by a succession of women, a number of whom were recent Cornell graduates. Van Rensselaer and Rose purchased the building in 1915, and it remained in their ownership even as independent management took over operation of the Forest Home Inn in the late 1920s. 4 Whether measured by its course offerings, enrollment, faculty, or facilities, the program in home economics at Cornell University saw impressive growth during the career of Martha Van Rensselaer, initially within the College of Agriculture and then as a separate College of Home Economics. Under her initiative, on-campus classes were developed for resident students, even as she continued to supervise the farmers’ wives reading course and introduced a winter short-course. In 1907, Van Rensselaer was joined by faculty colleague Flora Rose, and together they began to plan course offerings in the new Department of Home Economics. Beyond the classroom, they encouraged the formation of a women’s agricultural club, Frigga Fylga, named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the earth. In 1911, the two women were recognized by the University Faculty who, “while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships,” voted to “interpose no objection to their appointment.” By 1913, with more than 100 students and a slight increase in teaching staff, there were physical signs of the program’s progress, the most notable being the new Home Economics Building, which incorporated not only classrooms and offi ces but also laboratories and a cafeteria that refl ected the department’s practical studies. Meanwhile, the extension faculty and staff enjoyed new outreach capabilities with the use of a railroad car fi tted up for traveling demonstrations and with the acquisition of an automobile. Though the growth of the program slowed during World War I, university trustees voted in 1919 to designate Home Economics as a School within the College of Agriculture, and soon sought state legislation to establish it as a separate College, achieving that goal in February 1925. The New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell, with more than 500 students, would have six departments—Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, Household Art, Household Management, Institution Management, and Family Life. Construction of a new building began in 1931, though little more than the steel work was completed before Van Rensselaer’s death on May 26, 1932. With some 500 rooms, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall opened for regular instruction in fall 1933, and has remained a witness to its namesake’s more than thirty years as an educator, even as the college became the College of Human Ecology in 1969. 3 Connections between the Van Rensselaer and De Garmo households and campus life went beyond the basic home-work relationship of their primary members. Leland Van Rensselaer, Martha’s older brother, advertised his downtown insurance business in the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1910-11, Martha Van Rensselaer used the off-campus location to explore what she envisioned as becoming a “pig business,” turning to faculty in animal husbandry for advice and assistance. Having obtained a pig from a Yates County breeder of Berkshires, she reported that it had rooted up all of the surrounding sod and was “the admiration of the entire household.” The De Garmo home was an occasional meeting place of a student temperance organization, the Somerset Y, while Mrs. De Garmo participated as a hostess or chairwoman at various events on campus. The couple’s younger son resided at home while attending Cornell, receiving his degree in 1909. Although the families on both sides of the double house accommodated renters, the scale of this activity at 811 East State Street was noteworthy. Cornell directories of 1910, for example, identifi ed four faculty and staff members, including Van Rensselaer, and at least eight students residing there; a contemporary photograph of the rear of the house shows a number of additions, likely made to expand dining and sleeping quarters. While this commercial enterprise was probably operated by Leland and/or his wife, Martha Van Rensselaer’s correspondence documents her interaction with various past tenants. One faculty resident, Flora Rose, became her close friend and home economics colleague. 2 In serving as faculty members at Cornell, Martha Van Rensselaer and Charles De Garmo not only taught classes and held administrative positions at the university but also participated in professional societies and published on both general and specifi c topics. As Supervisor of the Cornell Reading-Course for Farmers’ Wives, Van Rensselaer wrote, edited and compiled bulletins and discussion papers on such subjects as “Saving Steps,” “Saving Strength” and “Home Sanitation,” encouraging women to analyze their daily activities and apply an understanding of economics and science in their operation of the household. An early member of the American Home Economics Association and its president in 1914-16, her articles appeared in such diverse publications as the Journal of Home Economics and Good Housekeeping; in the 1920s she served as editor of the homemaking department of the Delineator magazine. De Garmo, a member of several national educational associations, frequently lectured to state and municipal organizations of teachers and principals. A 1907 review of his Principles of Secondary Education ventured that “every student of education will be glad of the book,” a prediction seemingly borne out by its several reprintings and the subsequent publication of a new and enlarged edition. In Aesthetic Education of 1913, he demonstrated relationships between effi ciency and beauty in tools as well as between form and expression in poetry, urging teachers to promote “an aesthetic view of the world for every child. 1 From about 1901 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to the families of two Cornell University faculty members, educators who would be noted for their contributions on campus, in the local community and beyond. Martha Van Rensselaer, who would be instrumental in developing the Department and later the College of Home Economics, lived at 811 with her brother Leland and his wife. Charles De Garmo, Professor of the Science and Art of Education, resided at 809 with his wife Ida and their younger son, apparently renting their unit before Mrs. De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer jointly purchased the property in March 1902. Both households included varying numbers of roomers or boarders. Martha Van Rensselaer had graduated from the Chamberlain Institute in western New York State and had taught in her home community of Randolph before being elected a Cattaraugus County school commissioner. Her association with Cornell began in 1900, when she was called on by Liberty Hyde Bailey to develop a correspondence course for farmers’ wives that would complement the agricultural college’s extension work for farmers. Charles De Garmo, a Midwesterner, had received a doctoral degree in Germany, followed by university teaching in Illinois and the seven-year presidency of Swarthmore College before he was hired by Cornell in 1898 to lead its program in education. BA YOU ARE HERE Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double HouseValentine House KEY A B North Credit: Frank SantelliVan Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street.Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: ikon.5 architectsView from Mitchell Street to the Williams, Valentine and Van Rensselaer-De Garmo houses. Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house, East State Street, view from the east. The tinted concrete pavement in front of the present 809 East State Street marks the footprint of the front portion of the red brick double house that was erected there in 1895. Its owner, William L. Carey, had purchased his lot from members of the Valentine family, whose home was next door and whose property holdings along the south side of East State Street are recalled in the name of Valentine Place a short distance to the east.From about 1900 until 1914, the double house at 809-811 East State Street was home to Cornell University faculty members Charles De Garmo and Martha Van Rensselaer. The De Garmo family resided in the western unit, while Van Rensselaer lived in the eastern portion with her brother Leland, his wife and a varying number of faculty, staff and students, including Van Rensselaer’s close friend and colleague Flora Rose. In 1914, Van Rensselaer and Rose moved to a house on campus, while De Garmo retired and moved to Florida with his wife, who transferred her share of the property to Martha Van Rensselaer in 1919. Leland Van Rensselaer continued to reside at 811 until his death in 1950, renting out as many as eight apartments in the building. [The Van Rensselaer-De Garmo double house was demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE VAN RENSSELAER-DE GARMO DOUBLE HOUSE EDUCATION ON THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND Themes 1 & 2 Themes 3 & 4 Themes 5 & 6 Themes 5 & 6 8 East State Street elevation Plan Construction section Photo of site from East State Street GEORGE C. WILLIAMS HOUSE MARKER 911 East State Street The Historic Marker stands in front of the George C. Williams house, built in 1921 and thoroughly restored in 2013. Mr Williams was a former President of Ithaca Conservatory of Music. During his tenure the institution became Ithaca College. He was also a noted actor. The marker celebrates the role of the house and its occupants in shaping Ithaca’s dramatic arts community. 9 Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Credit: Awaiting clarificationGeorge C. Williams, as presented in the 1908 Ithaca Daily Journal series on “Well Known Ithacans.”Credit: Bennett Martin Public Library, Lincoln, NebraskaAdvertisement for the Nebraska College of Oratory, Geo. C. Williams, principal, from Hoye’s City Directory of Lincoln for 1896. Program cover for December 1928 performances of “Cap’n Warren,” with George C. Williams in the title role. Ithaca Conservatory of Music, Class of 1924 with W. Grant Egbert and George C. Williams (center, front row) in front of the former Boardman house. Wilgus Block, East State and South Tioga Streets.Credit: The History Center in Tompkins CountyIthaca Conservatory of Music buildings along DeWitt Park, with the former Boardman house on the right.Credit: Courtesy of John SchroederCredit:Ithaca College Archives and Special Collections(below) News article (Ithaca Journal-News, Nov. 2, 1927), D.A.R. entertained at Williams’ home. (top) News article (Ithaca Journal, Sept. 21, 1914), Sigma Alpha Iota entertained by Mrs. G. C. Williams.Credit: Ithaca College Archives and Special CollectionsCredit: Awaiting clarification Credit: Awaiting clarification Title page and p.21, George C. Williams, The Speaking Voice: A Collection of Vocal Exercises (1919).Credit: Cornell University LibraryGeorge C. Williams House, main stair hall.Credit: ikon.5 architectsBeginning of news article (Once- a-Week, Dec. 6, 1928), private reading of “Cap’n Warren” at the Williams’ home.Credit: The History Center in Tompkins County3 At the time George C.Williams arrived in Ithaca, the Conservatory of Music rented teaching, office and performance space in the Wilgus Block, its Music Hall occupying the remodeled Wilgus Opera House. At the end of its ten-year lease in 1904, the conservatory moved to the upper floors of another downtown building, but returned to the Wilgus Block in 1907. In 1910, the conservatory purchased the Italianate-style former residence of the late Judge Douglass Boardman on East Buffalo Street, its site extending along the east side of DeWitt Park to the First Baptist Church. Occupied early in the following year, the property gave the school its own quarters, with greater visibility and land for an envisioned auditorium. That addition was erected in 1912-13 from plans by Cady & Gregory, a New York City firm whose principal member had been largely responsible for the design of the First Presbyterian Church on the north side of the park. The round arches of the Conservatory Hall echoed those of that church building, while its brick and stucco walls were compatible with the materials of the former Boardman house and the two stone churches. Enrollment in the conservatory increased, not only in the existing programs but with the addition of others, which would join the Williams School of Expression and Dramatic Art as affiliated schools. To accommodate the growing institution, the conservatory added to its physical plant, purchasing more than a dozen area buildings in the 1920s. Some were used as dormitories while others, like the former Star Theater remodeled for the School of Physical Education, served specialized instructional needs. Office and teaching space was constructed to the north of the auditorium, further giving DeWitt Park the character of an academic quadrangle. Williams continued in his roles as administrator, teacher and performer, and after Egbert stepped aside as president in 1924, Williams took on that position. In 1926, the conservatory, which had previously awarded certificates or diplomas, was granted a state charter as the Ithaca Conservatory and Affiliated Schools, enabling it to confer degrees. Though visions of building a new campus on South Hill would not be realized for several decades, the institution was chartered as Ithaca College in 1931. Williams served as president until his resignation in 1932, after which he moved to Florida and developed another career as a Presbyterian minister. 2 Several months after his 1897 arrival in Ithaca, George C. Williams married a Nebraska woman, and the couple would begin their family while residing downtown, not far from the rooms of the Conservatory of Music. In 1909, having recently acquired an automobile, Williams purchased a building site near the crest of the East State Street hill. Its location was immediately east of a house previously rented by one his conservatory colleagues, and in a residential area that had increasingly attracted a number of Cornell University faculty. The large, towered home was erected by Ithaca contractor William E. Sager that same year. According to Williams’s 1969 autobiography, the house was planned to accommodate not only his family with its two children, but also gatherings hosted by Mrs. Williams and dramatic assemblies offered by Williams. The spacious reception hall opened to the major rooms on the first story and to a broad staircase, illuminated by a large leaded glass Palladian window on the west wall, while an assembly room and a study were located on the top story. The local press reported on various events held at the home, such as Mrs. Williams’s hosting of members of the Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority in 1914 and her entertainment of about 75 members of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1927. In 1928, the house was noted as the scene of the wedding reception of the couple’s daughter “for 150 personal friends and relatives,” and for Williams’s reading of the play, “Cap’n Warren,” to its cast. 1 When the Ithaca Daily Journal published a series of front-page cartoons in 1908 that recognized some thirty “Well Known Ithacans,” the inclusion of George C. Williams was surely not because he was a native of nearby Dryden who had envisioned becoming a Presbyterian minister, nor because of his varied administrative work as manager, secretary and treasurer of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, though these were noteworthy biographical facts. Instead, as the four-line rhyme indicates, Williams’s familiarity to local residents resulted from his faculty role at the conservatory as a speaker and stage performer. Having studied in Boston and taught in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he had established the Nebraska College of Oratory, Williams came to Ithaca in spring 1897. Here he worked alongside Ithaca Conservatory founder and musician W. Grant Egbert, developing the institution’s program in elocution and oratory into the earliest of its affiliated schools, the Williams School of Expression and Dramatic Art. His 1919 publication, The Speaking Voice: A Collection of Vocal Exercises, offered training to improve the voice as “the spokesman of the soul,” and was planned for use “in the class-room, the private studio, and by the individual as a means of self-culture.” Local newspapers gave ample coverage to Williams’s promotion of the conservatory—and his own talents, reporting on the monologue recitals he gave in Ithaca and elsewhere in the Northeast. The founder of the school’s Amard Dramatic Fraternity (“drama” spelled backward), Williams drew attention to student productions through his own participation, often in prominent character roles. It was said of one 1906 performance that “he lived the character so well that his friends saw only Cyrus Blenkarn,” while in 1928 he reportedly made the role of Cap’n Warren “notably his own,” keeping audience attention on the Cap’n, “sometimes to the exclusion of the intricacies of the drama.” KEY A B C C B A YOU ARE HERE North George C. Williams House Valentine House Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double House View from Mitchell Street to the Williams, Valentine and Van Rensselaer-De Garmo houses.George C. Williams house, 901 East State Street.Credit: Frank SantelliCredit: ikon.5 architectsThe imposing residential structure at 901 East State Street has been rehabilitated to more nearly resemble its appearance during its ownership by George C. Williams, secretary-treasurer and manager, and then president, of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and Affiliated Schools and its successor institution, Ithaca College. Williams purchased the site in 1909 from members of the Valentine family, whose home had been next door and whose property holdings along the south side of East State Street are recalled in the name of Valentine Place a short distance to the east. The house was constructed that same year by contractor William E. Sager; its street facade was remodeled sometime during the following two decades. After resigning from the presidency of Ithaca College in 1932, Williams moved to Florida but continued to own the property until 1944. The house was then owned and occupied by members of the Polychrones family until 1977, after which it was substantially enlarged for student rentals. [The George C. Williams house was rehabilitated in 2013.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE GEORGE C. WILLIAMS HOUSE PRESENTING GEORGE C. WILLIAMS 10 Mitchell Plaza elevation Construction sectionPhoto of site JANE A. DELANO HOME MARKER The Entrance to Collegetown Terrace, East State Street Unlike the other Historic markers, the Jane A. Delano Home Marker is not at the site of the building it commemorates, the building once stood at the bottom of Valentine Place, a largely unseen location. With the consent of the Ithaca Planning Board, the Marker will be installed at the entrance to Collegetown Terrace in an setting already framed by artifacts rescued rom the original building. The most architecturally distinguished building on the Collegetown Terrace site, it was home to nurses in training at the Ithaca City Hospital on South Quarry Street, now Quarry Arms, a part of Collegetown Terrace. 11 Research and text by Mary Raddant Tomlan; graphic design by Ian Tyndall and Jeremy Bennett. Map showing the Ithaca City Hospital and Nurses’ Home, from the Sanborn Map Company’s Insurance Maps of Ithaca . . . Sept. 1919. Ithaca City Hospital, 1912- 13, view from the east, Gibb & Waltz, architects, Driscoll Bros. & Company, contractors. Ithaca City Hospital, nurses’ lecture and demonstration room.Credit: Courtesy of Tompkins County Public LibraryJane A. Delano Home, proposed addition, Gibb & Waltz, architects.Creidt: History Center in Thompkins CountyJ. Lakin Baldridge, portrait Automobile sales and service garage, East State Street, 1927-28, J. Lakin Baldridge, architect. Seneca Building, East Seneca Street, 1928-29, elevation drawing, J. Lakin Baldridge, architect. Jane A. Delano, portrait, painted by [Samuel Creed] Gholson. Jane A. Delano Home (former Walter L. Williams house). (below) Jane A. Delano Home, library Jane A. Delano Home addition, assembly room.Credit: The History Center in Tompkins County Jane A. Delano Home, view from the west, c.1931.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University LibraryCredit: Ian TyndallJane A. Delano Home addition, view along eastern façade. Valentine Dormitory, Ithaca College, formerly the Jane A. Delano Home for Nurses. Headline announcing Ithaca College purchase of former hospital and nurses’ home.Credit: Awaiting clarificationCredit: The History Center in Tompkins County Credit: The Hospital Center in Thompkins County Credit: The History Center in Thompkins County Credit: The History Center in Thompkins County Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Credit: Cornell University Credit: The History Center in Tompkins County Credit: Awaiting clarification Credit: Army Nurse Corps Association 7 The pride in seeing student nurses move into the enlarged Jane A. Delano Home in January 1930 was tempered some two years later as a study of hospital needs and economic conditions led the renamed Tompkins County Memorial Hospital to suspend its nurses’ training program. Though the September 1932 suspension was envisioned as temporary, the hospital’s involvement in nursing education would be limited to serving as a training venue, beginning in 1949, for students enrolled in the Ithaca School of Practical Nursing, an adult education program, and to awarding scholarships for study elsewhere. Meanwhile, the Delano Home housed nurses and other hospital employees, and continued to be used for meetings and events. Discussions about facilities and funding during the 1940s led to the increased role of Tompkins County in hospital operations and ownership. Changes in that role and in the use of the hospital property were highlighted in Fall 1958 with the move of the Tompkins County Hospital to the former state tuberculosis hospital on West Hill and its sale of the land along Six Mile Creek to Ithaca College. Though the college considered developing the site as a new campus, it focused on using the former hospital and nurses’ home as dormitories from 1958 to 1971, bridging its move from downtown to South Hill. 6 Baldridge’s scheme for the addition to the Jane A. Delano Home for Nurses appears to have taken the footprint and perhaps the volume of the earlier Gibb & Waltz design, and may have borrowed from its plan as well. However, instead of facades of brick and a rather traditional cornice line, the building had stuccoed walls with brick trim and, as in the hospital, hipped roofs of clay tile. In turning from a more urban mode, Baldridge acknowledged the comparatively rustic setting on the slope down toward Six Mile Creek, yet the quoin-defined corners of the addition and its handsome series of arched windows drew from a Renaissance tradition, much as did elements of the earlier Delano Home. In addition to providing rooms for 75-80 nurses, the addition featured two sun-rooms at the southern side of the building, overlooking the woods and hills beyond, and an assembly room at the lowest level, accessible at grade, for social and institutional use. 5 When the hospital’s Board of Trustees was finally prepared to proceed with an addition to the Delano Home in 1928, the Gibb & Waltz partnership had been dissolved and Ornan H. Waltz had died. The board turned to a younger architect, J. Lakin Baldridge, a Cornell University graduate and former faculty member who had established an Ithaca practice several years earlier. His local work exhibited various geographic and historical influences, whether it was an English manor house in Cayuga Heights, a Mediterranean- styled automobile sales and service garage, or a Georgian Revival commercial building. Although Baldridge would employ the last-named mode in the years around 1930 for such prominent structures as the Seneca Building, Cayuga Apartments, Tompkins County Courthouse and Jail, and Thurston Court Apartments, it would not be chosen for the Delano Home addition. 4 With more than forty enrolled in the nurses’ training program by the mid-1920s, housing conditions for the student nurses were crowded. Plans for an addition to the Delano Home were prepared by Gibb & Waltz, the hospital architects, and a perspective rendering of the proposed design was published in the hospital’s annual report of 1925. An apartment-like brick building, it was planned to be accessible from the main floor of the existing home while taking advantage of the sloping site for two lower stories above grade. Funds for construction, however, remained insufficient to proceed. Meanwhile, concerned that the term “City” in the hospital’s name could imply municipal operation and financing, the hospital association voted in 1926 to change the institution’s name to the Ithaca Memorial Hospital. 3 By mid-November 1922, the new nurses’ home had been named in memory of Jane A. Delano, a native of the Finger Lakes region whose more than thirty-year career as a nurse, educator and administrator extended across the nation and abroad. Delano’s experience with the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War and her superintendence of the Army Nurse Corps in 1909-12 would inform her subsequent leadership of the Red Cross Nursing Service, as she promoted the enrollment of thousands of nurses to serve at home and in Europe during the first World War. In 1919, while in France on behalf of the Red Cross to assess postwar needs, Delano became ill and died. Her body was brought back to the United States in 1920 and buried in the nurses’ plot at Arlington National Cemetery. 2 In spring 1922, with concern that the inadequacy of its nurses’ housing was impeding the training school’s recruitment of students, the Ithaca City Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees authorized the purchase of property owned by Cornell University Professor Walter L. Williams and located at the southern end of Valentine Place, set apart from the hospital but close enough to be convenient. The handsome Georgian Revival-style frame dwelling, constructed in 1898, offered housing for 16-18 nurses, with common areas for social and individual use, while the site was large enough for a future addition. The association took possession in July 1922, and the home was ready for occupancy by the fall term. 1 When the new Ithaca City Hospital on South Quarry Street opened in 1914, it not only provided the community with a larger and more modern facility for medical care but also accommodated the hospital’s recently instituted training school for nurses. Designed by Gibb & Waltz, it superseded the earlier hospital on North Aurora Street, a remodeled former residence that had received two additions since it opened in 1892. Working with the relatively spacious new site between East State Street and Six Mile Creek, the architects carefully considered such matters as the layout of the grounds, the orientation of patients’ rooms based on sunlight and view, and the possibility of isolating certain areas should a suspected contagion develop. An apartment for the hospital superintendent was included, as was a lecture and demonstration room for nurses’ training. Hospital administrators had previously recognized that housing was important in attracting and retaining a trained nursing staff, many of whom were unmarried women and who worked a variety of shifts. Of the nurses employed at the hospital on North Aurora Street, most lived in the neighborhood, with twenty-one in a house familiarly known as the “nursery” and five or six others rooming nearby. Now, with the addition of student nurses, many of whom came from surrounding communities, the provision of housing became more critical. A temporary nurses’ home, located about a hundred feet southeast of the new hospital and described as two houses moved together, accommodated some of the graduate and student nurses. Others rented rooms and took board in neighborhood homes, one of which was the unit in the double house on East State Street owned by Cornell University Home Economics Professor Martha Van Rensselaer. The Jane A. Delano Home (former Walter L. Williams House) Jane A. Delano Home, addition Ithaca City (later Memorial, then Tompkins County Memorial) Hospital Early nurses’ home Van Rensselaer-De Garmo Double House E DC B A YOU ARE HERE KEY A B C D E North The Jane A. Delano Home addition, eastern façade.Jane A. Delano Home addition, ground story entrance.Jane A. Delano Home, view from Valentine Place, c.1931.Credit: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.Credit: Ian TyndallCredit: Ian TyndallThe architectural elements along the northern side of the Mitchell Plaza were originally components of the 1929 addition to the Jane A. Delano Home for Nurses, located at the southern end of Valentine Place. While in its present location the arcade opens to lyrical/idealized scenes of nature painted by artist and Cornell University professor Stan Taft, it originally framed windows on the east wall of the nurses’ home that provided natural light to the assembly room. The freestanding doorway enframement continues to recognize Jane A. Delano, a nurse honored for her work with the American Red Cross Nursing Service, much as it did when it surrounded the addition’s ground story entrance. When the hospital, by then named the Tompkins County Memorial Hospital, moved to West Hill in 1958, the property was sold to Ithaca College for dormitory use, and would continue as student housing in the following decades. [The Jane A. Delano Home for Nurses was demolished in 2011.] THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THE JANE A. 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