{"nrhp_refnum":"84003190","name":"Rice Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Cornell University campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ithaca","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.44818141700006,"lon":-76.47405628999996,"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":"Rice Hall, originally the Poultry Husbandry Building, is a three-story brick instructional building on the north side of Tower Road on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. It was built in 1911-12.","why_significant":"It was built for poultry education at Cornell and is named for James E. Rice, who began an early systematic poultry course in the United States in 1892. It is also significant as a design by respected architects, with Martin, Hebrard & Young producing the plans and Green & Wicks the working drawings. It is compatible with other early buildings of the New York State College of Agriculture, especially Comstock Hall.","narrative":"Rice Hall is a brick teaching building on the north side of Tower Road at Cornell University in Ithaca. Completed in 1911-12 as the Poultry Husbandry Building, it was funded by a state legislature appropriation and still houses poultry and avian sciences classrooms, offices and laboratories. It is named for James E. Rice, a Cornell graduate who began a pioneering poultry course in 1892 and headed the department from 1907 until 1934. The building is a fifteen-bay rectangular block of buff tapestry brick with limestone trim and a slate hipped roof with broad eaves. Its south facade has a projecting central pavilion with three large arched windows that once lit a lecture room seating about 250. Cornell architecture faculty Martin, Hebrard and Young drew the plans, and the Buffalo firm Green & Wicks prepared working drawings and supervised construction. The design blends Renaissance-inspired composition with Arts and Crafts materials and woodwork, and it resembles nearby Comstock Hall.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architects: Martin, Hebrard & Young (plans and elevations); Green & Wicks (working drawings, specifications, construction supervision). Builder: Eastern Concrete Steel Company, Buffalo","architectural_style":"Design based on Renaissance and Mannerist principles, combined with Arts and Crafts influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used for classrooms, offices and laboratories; condition given as fair, with no known threats.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.086793-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003190.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003190/8ad0fbf4f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003190/8ad0fbf4f1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Valentine-Souvenir Post Card Co., New York City (publisher)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornell_University_-_Poultry_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Valentine-Souvenir Post Card Co., New York City (publisher)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornell_University_-_Poultry_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315176","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Hall_(Ithaca,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7323006"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/rice-hall-84003190/"}