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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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YOUR NAME:C nthia Crier DATE: 12/21/83
YOUR ADDRESS:171 E, State St. ,#319 TELEPHONE: 6Q7 272--4399
ORGANIZATION (if any):
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Close Hall
2. COUNTY: Tompkins TOWNICITY: Q,1 :Jacksonville
3. STREET LOCATION: 1872 Trumansburg Road (NYS RT 96) Jackso_rtv_il.l, NY
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private ® 1872 Trurnansburg Road(NYS 96
S. PRESENT OWNER: Parke c". Lorna Close ADDRESS: Jac!csanville,L NY --
6. USE: Original:Gran e NjeetinQ Hall Present: Ennimuoity Functions
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 0 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain O t r i n g F E.i n c t` n n s
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ® b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
').STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ® b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑x b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
A sixty square Foot, one-story addition has been added to the
center or the front -facade. It has two small rectangular win-
dow ooeninas thF-t are Positioned undr.r the eave line.
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THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i, landscape features:
j. other:
SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a. open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d, densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential 0
h. other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Facing the original Ithaca --Geneva turnpike (AYE 96) through
Jacksonville, Close Hall is surrourided by a number of the
hamlet's 19th -century houses. 1n.60ition, the Church and
original Jacksonville school house are Just across the road.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
(see attached sheet)
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION`. 1911 carved on build n stoop) �
ARCHITECT: V. 0— hr tA � _
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
(see attached sheet)
21. SOURCES:—Tompkins County Tax Assessor's Cffice
—Interviews: Harland Knight Nnd Mrs. Robert Shaw
-Inside/Out."Grange Nesters In the Town of Ulysses, a 100 -Year
Old History." by Barbara Bell. 1977.
2.2. THEME: -Tompkins County Clerk's Dffice (deed research)
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Close mall: 1872 Trumansburg Road (NYS Route 96) Jacksonville, NY
18. The Wilding ;has a basic L -shape plan. The structure
supports a low-pitched hip ioof with green asbestos shingles
and a delicate plain frieze running around the entire 'luilding.
The building sets on a stone foundation with small windows in
the full Osament. Timber beams and posts is the construction
system. The exterior wall material is clapboard with the cor-
ners of the building denoted by thin cornerboards. The facade
is divided into five bays with a six-foot projection of the last
two bays on the left end. This projection denotes the entrance
with its one story porch that Kos two wooden square posts sup --
porting a triangular pediment. The _;ouLl_e doors do not appear
to be cririnal.
There is n 1. ter one-story ou:_.'iticn in the center of the
front facade. The addition is not in the character of the rest
of 07 building. It possesses a haif--hipped roof, znd its two
Omnl l wccto.ngul'r wjn 'ows are placed un=.cr the ave line.
The _Lck fpco,ds csnsists> of five Vys, Lnd placed .symmetrically on
this elevation are five windows on the first floor and five
windows `"n thu Second floor. The north End snuth facccdes ere
two bays gide-' with a two over two composition of windows. The
oath facade does reimage the first level window :.n the left
with L double leaf vertical board door . All of e moors und
windows, except the chain entrance doors _nd two windows in the
s ldit'_on, Sugpert z delic= to entc ble tore. The windows Ere all
two-av or --two .-rouble--i ung sashes.
20. The first rcrm;.nent meeting hell for Grange in Jcckson-
vi.l! a is loc':toj on NYS Route 96 acrocs from � hamlet's church
En: of iginul school house. Before the Grange hall was built
in 1911, the site was an orchard of Tompkins County icing Fipple
trees. The only surviving apple tree is in Harland Knight's
backycrd. Knight is a post Ulysses Grand ksstsr of the Grange.
VrVr_. 01, in ker 'Ulysses Grange history stntcd,
4n the ave_ning of July 11, 1677, , few percon:_ convened
for thepur ose4consultation regzrding organization of tha Grange.
ubsequently in August of 1677 the Grange Loo=m life with thirty-
two members, =after incorporation in 1910, the Grange Hall WES
erected at a cost of #300. for the lot, 5nd 53,225. for the hall.
In mor, recant years, the Grange Hall was usei for ,eetings,
receptions P nd parties of the Grunge LeEcue Federation ( which
'pec.. me Agway Cooperative Extension) , Cay Scout activities, and
wcrkshops for the 2abcock Poultry Farms. As port of its community
service: work, Ulysses Grange gave the use of its hall for voter
registration and as a polling place for come twenty years. In
1950? the seventy-nine year old Waterburg Gro:nge voted to join
Ulysses Grange. The hall was sold two years ago, and Ulysses
Grange now meets in the Hearth Room of the Jacksonville Community
Church.
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Close, Parke & Lorna E. 7/l/75 546 26
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