Cornell Heights Historic District
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On the National Register since 1989

Cornell Heights Historic District
Cornell Heights Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Sep 14, 1989. It is significant for its town planning, landscape design and architecture at the local level. Its architecture is described as Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals and Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival and Mission and Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movement and Prairie School and Arts and Crafts. The district takes in 208 historic buildings.
Cornell Heights Historic District is a national historic district located in Ithaca, New York. The district contains 208 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It consists of an early 20th-century residential subdivision developed between 1898 and 1942, and originally conceived as a "residence park" for faculty members of Cornell University, directly north of the Fall Creek gorge. It was listed on the N…
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