"The Little House"
303 E. Upland Road
Year Built: 1900
Style: Colonial Revival
Full House History: Elizabeth Mount, "Twice "Removed" and Thrice Survived; A Brief History of the Little House, Most Recently Seen at 303 E. Upland Road, Ithaca, N.Y."
Originally an outbuilding of the Wyckoff Estate in Cornell Heights, the structure was called a "gymnasium" because of a dirt track that encircled it. Intended for fitness and sport for the leisured class, it was a hastily built structure. The small building was sold for financial reasons, and the Sheldon family purchased it.
303 E. Upland Road
Year Built: 1900
Style: Colonial Revival
Full House History: Elizabeth Mount, "Twice "Removed" and Thrice Survived; A Brief History of the Little House, Most Recently Seen at 303 E. Upland Road, Ithaca, N.Y."
Originally an outbuilding of the Wyckoff Estate in Cornell Heights, the structure was called a "gymnasium" because of a dirt track that encircled it. Intended for fitness and sport for the leisured class, it was a hastily built structure. The small building was sold for financial reasons, and the Sheldon family purchased it.
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Moving homes (called "removal") was a common practice during the nineteenth century to "make way for progress." Cut in half with hand saws, this house was transported up Triphammer Road to number 901. Emily Sheldon was widowed when her husband, a doctor, died treating patients in Pittsburgh during the influenza epidemic at the end of World War I. When an interested buyer offered to purchase her Triphammer Road property, she happily hired a tractor to move the house to a lot on E. Upland Road, though it got stuck in the neighbor's mud on the way!
Click on the image at right to read Elizabeth Mount's history of this fascinating house. |
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