{"nrhp_refnum":"88001019","name":"Clinton Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"108--114 N. Cayuga St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ithaca","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.43992283600005,"lon":-76.49976035399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Greek Revival brick commercial block at 108-114 North Cayuga Street in downtown Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, built between 1847 and 1851 and financed by Henry Ackley.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving Greek Revival commercial building in downtown Ithaca and one of the city's first brick blocks with a cast-iron storefront. Its roof framing adapts the Howe bridge truss, an early use in central New York. It also housed Ithaca's first theater and anchored the first block of North Cayuga Street. The state review board judged that the exterior retains enough integrity despite a 1985-87 rehabilitation that destroyed the interior.","narrative":"Clinton Hall is a three-story Greek Revival brick commercial block on North Cayuga Street in downtown Ithaca, built between 1847 and 1851 for the local businessman and developer Henry Ackley. It sits beside the Clinton House hotel and shares a party wall with the Hibbard Block. Both buildings were set back four feet so that the hotel's portico stayed visible along the street. The building combined a cast-iron storefront, one of the earliest in Ithaca, with brick piers, stepped parapet gables and a roof framed with a variant of the Howe bridge truss. Shops occupied the lower levels, offices and later apartments the second floor, and a 500-seat theater the third floor, which hosted plays, meetings and exhibitions. Major fires and a 1985-87 rehabilitation changed the structure, and the interior lost its historic character. Reviewers still found the exterior intact enough to convey its original style and use, and described it as the best-preserved 1840s commercial building in Ithaca.","period_of_significance":"1847-51","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated 1985-1987 with a large rear addition, a rebuilt parapet, new sash, replicated storefront piers and an added fourth floor; the interior no longer retains historic integrity. The form lists the property as occupied and in commercial use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.742925-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001019.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001019/640750d941-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001019/640750d941-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"renatoppl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinton_Hall_2012-09-23_15-54-28.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">renatoppl</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:Clinton_Hall_2012-09-23_15-54-28.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322475","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Hall_(Ithaca,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5134130"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/clinton-hall-88001019/"}