Cortland, NY (1/25/2024)

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Once again, a stop on the way to Buffalo.

Cortland County Historical Society Museum (1925)
in the Suggett House (1882, in Italianate style, for John
Suggett who had a patent for improved drilling of wells)

The sign painter did not plan ahead,
yet it is the same on both sides!

Kent stands at a door that may have led
to the outhouse, but the steps were removed

The adjoining Kellogg Memorial Library and Research Center

The Civil War exhibit, and a tiny gift shop;
we were given an interesting tour of the artifacts
displayed in the Suggett House, so we left a donation

Homer Avenue United Methodist Church (1914)

Former Tyler & Edgbert, electrical contractors,
building (c 1890 as a hotel) at 31 Central Ave ...

... is now The Red Jug and retains the tiled
flooring, wainscoting, and textured walls

Farther along Central Avenue is Grand Central Block (1887)

Cortland Fire Station (1914-1916) is believed to be the
second oldest continuously working firehouse listed
on the National Registry of Historic Places

1890 House (by Samuel B Reed in
Chateauesque style) for industrialist
Chester F Wickwire, who received in trade
at his hardware store a carpet
loom, which he adapted to weave wire,
and went on to be the second largest
producer of wire goods in the country

Lynne Parks SUNY Cortland Alumni House (1912)
was the residence of Chester Wickwire's son, Charles

39 Tompkins Street (c 1886, in Queen Anne Stick style)

Former Masonic Lodge 470 (c 1909 addition to 1870s
residence for William Randall, who with his brother,
Roswell, established a general store and also dealt
in potash and whiskey); we saw a portrait of the brothers

YWCA (1868-1869, in Italianate style as a residence
for Billy Randall, son of Roswell Randall)