{"nrhp_refnum":"84003178","name":"East Robert Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Cornell University campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ithaca","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.44858224600006,"lon":-76.47789616099999,"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":"East Roberts Hall (originally the Dairy Building) is a masonry classroom, office and laboratory building on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York, on the north side of Tower Road. It was built in 1905-07 as the eastern unit of the three-building Roberts Hall complex.","why_significant":"It is an essential component of the complex built for the newly established New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, reflecting the state's commitment to agricultural education. It is also a work by George L. Heins, New York's first State Architect. Its shared form, scale and materials with Roberts and Stone Halls give the group an underlying harmony.","narrative":"East Roberts Hall is a brick and sandstone academic building on the north side of Tower Road at Cornell University in Ithaca. Built in 1905-07 as the Dairy Building, it forms the eastern part of a three-building group with Roberts and Stone Halls, linked to Roberts Hall by a loggia. State Architect George L. Heins designed the group, and Morris Kantrowitz built this hall. Legislative limits on spending for a single building made the three-part arrangement a practical solution for the new State College of Agriculture. The hall is a rectangular block with a high basement, two main stories and a third story under a gable-on-hipped roof with dormers. Its walls combine buff and iron-spot brick, sandstone, terra cotta and limestone. Broad eaves with exposed rafters recall Arts and Crafts design. A large one-story dairy wing was demolished in 1930. The building still holds offices, classrooms and laboratories.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George L. Heins, State Architect; builder Morris Kantrowitz","architectural_style":"Eclectic mix of Renaissance and Classical elements in a Beaux-Arts spirit, with Arts and Crafts influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition fair; still used for classrooms, offices and laboratories, including the landscape architecture program. The form lists proposed demolition as a threat.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.174208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003178/1af08c0437-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003178/1af08c0437-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Roberts_Hall,_Cornell_University_(demolished).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Roberts_Hall,_Cornell_University_(demolished).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315168","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Roberts_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5329290"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/east-robert-hall-84003178/"}