{"nrhp_refnum":"84003860","name":"Stone Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Cornell University campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ithaca","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.44856499200006,"lon":-76.47923337999998,"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":"Stone Hall, originally the Agronomy Building, is a masonry classroom, office and laboratory building on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York, at the northeast corner of Tower Road and Garden Avenue. It was built in 1905-07 to designs by State Architect George L. Heins.","why_significant":"It is an essential part of the three-building Roberts Hall complex built for the newly established New York State College of Agriculture. The complex reflected the state's commitment to agricultural education. It is also a work of George L. Heins, New York's first State Architect, and its eclectic Beaux-Arts detailing is notable.","narrative":"Stone Hall is a brick and stone building on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, built in 1905-07 as the Agronomy Building. State Architect George L. Heins designed it, and Morris Kantrowitz was the builder. It forms the western unit of a three-building group with Roberts Hall and East Roberts, joined to Roberts Hall by a loggia. Legislative limits on spending for a single building led to the three-part scheme. The hall is five bays wide and nine bays long, with a nearly full-height basement, two main stories and a third story under a gable-on-hipped roof. Its walls combine sandstone, iron-spot and buff brick, terra cotta and limestone. The west facade has a distinctive projecting center pavilion with a blind balcony. The building is named for John L. Stone, an early agronomy professor. It reflects the state's investment in agricultural education and Heins's work as State Architect. Today it houses offices, laboratories and classrooms.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George L. Heins, State Architect; builder Morris Kantrowitz","architectural_style":"Eclectic Beaux-Arts esthetic, mixing Renaissance and Classical elements with Arts and Crafts-style exposed rafters","criteria":[],"status_note":"In present use for administrative offices, laboratories and classrooms; condition listed as fair, with a proposed demolition noted 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 02:50:42.524514-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003860.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315162","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Hall_(Ithaca,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7618943"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/stone-hall-84003860/"}