East Hill Historic District

East Hill is a hillside neighborhood in Ithaca, New York, east of the central business district and southwest of the Cornell University campus. It spans 29 blocks and about 65 acres, bounded by the Cascadilla and Six-Mile Creek gorges, and holds 254 principal buildings. Most are houses built between 1870 and 1920, when building booms followed the opening of Cornell in 1868 and horsecar and street railway lines linked the hill to downtown. The streets form a grid over steep terrain, with a grade change of roughly 350 feet. Styles range from modest Greek Revival houses to Italianate, Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts designs, many by architect William H. Miller. Notable buildings include the Henry W. Sage Mansion and the Liberty Hyde Bailey House. Rowhouses, boarding houses, brick commercial blocks and carriage barns reflect the demand for student housing. Boundaries were drawn to include only the most intact historic buildings.