{"nrhp_refnum":"84003117","name":"Caldwell Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Cornell University campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ithaca","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.44956865700004,"lon":-76.47822336599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Caldwell Hall is a three-story brick academic building on a high basement, with a fourth story in the roof, on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. It was built in 1914 on the north side of the Agricultural Quadrangle, designed by Green & Wicks of Buffalo.","why_significant":"The building was constructed for the Department of Soil Technology and was named in 1915 for George C. Caldwell, an agricultural chemistry professor who headed Cornell's early College of Agriculture. Its architectural importance comes from the stature of its Buffalo architects and from a design that fits sympathetically with neighboring campus buildings, especially Comstock Hall. It is part of a thematic group of buildings from the first decade of the College of Agriculture.","narrative":"Caldwell Hall is a classroom, office and laboratory building on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, built in 1914 on the north side of the Agricultural Quadrangle. It was erected mainly for the Department of Soil Technology, which had been crowded into Stone Hall, and was named in 1915 for George C. Caldwell, an agricultural chemistry professor who led the early College of Agriculture from 1868 to 1874. The Buffalo firm of Green & Wicks designed it. Edward Green was a Cornell alumnus, and the firm had earlier worked on other campus buildings. The three-story block rises above a high basement, with a slate hipped roof and dormers. Its walls are buff tapestry brick with limestone trim, and the five central bays of the south facade project forward as a pavilion with triplet windows and a pedimented entrance. The design draws on Renaissance composition and Arts and Crafts detail, and it harmonizes with neighboring buildings, especially Comstock Hall. It remains in its original use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect: Green & Wicks, Buffalo; Builder: Durolithic Company, Buffalo","architectural_style":"Renaissance compositional principles with Arts and Crafts features (tapestry brick, eaves details)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used for classrooms, offices and laboratories, as originally; condition fair. The central stairway has been enclosed and some windows filled with louvers.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.505596-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003117.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003117/a9e990ef53-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003117/a9e990ef53-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caldwell-hall-cornell.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caldwell-hall-cornell.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315172","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldwell_Hall_(Ithaca,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5019152"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/caldwell-hall-84003117/"}