Kline Farmhouse
(Also known as "The Brick House" and the "Bedbug House")
832 Hanshaw Road
Year Built: 1829
What we know today as the Warren Real Estate building (with Tompkins Financial Corporation as its current tenant) across the road from the Corners Community Center was originally the farmhouse of the Kline family. Professor T. Hewitt's Landmarks of Tompkins County (1894) describes the prominent position of Peter Kline in Ithaca:
(Also known as "The Brick House" and the "Bedbug House")
832 Hanshaw Road
Year Built: 1829
What we know today as the Warren Real Estate building (with Tompkins Financial Corporation as its current tenant) across the road from the Corners Community Center was originally the farmhouse of the Kline family. Professor T. Hewitt's Landmarks of Tompkins County (1894) describes the prominent position of Peter Kline in Ithaca:
"Kline, Peter, was born on the old homestead farm, one half mile north of where he now lives, June 6, 1823. His parents came to the town of Ithaca from New Jersey and bought a farm of a Mr. Cradit, who owned at that time one of the original sections of the township of Ithaca, containing 600 acres. June 3, 1863, he married Emeline Winter of Philipsburgh, N.J., by whom he had four children, two now living, a son and a daughter. Mr. Kline is a Republican, and has served as assessor fourteen years. He is interested in educational matters, and recognized in his town as a man of high ability and of sterling worth. He is a member of the Congregational church of Ithaca." Professor T. Hewitt, Landmarks of Tompkins County, D. Mason, Syracuse, New York, 1894.
(In the early 1930s, Jared Newman named the nearby Klinewoods section of Cayuga Heights after the Kline family.)
In 1920, Eunice Cornell Taylor (a granddaughter of Ezra Cornell) and her husband Charles Taylor acquired the Kline farmhouse from Eunice's brother, Franklin C. Cornell. They bought cows and ran a dairy business, which was not a great success. Later, widowed and without funds, Eunice was cared for by the farm manager and his wife. She died in 1942; the house was later inhabited by a series of residents, thereby acquiring its infamous name, "Bedbug House."
Some may remember the house as the Peggy Cornwall women's clothing shop before Warren Real Estate moved in and accomplished renovations to the Federal-style facade.
In 1920, Eunice Cornell Taylor (a granddaughter of Ezra Cornell) and her husband Charles Taylor acquired the Kline farmhouse from Eunice's brother, Franklin C. Cornell. They bought cows and ran a dairy business, which was not a great success. Later, widowed and without funds, Eunice was cared for by the farm manager and his wife. She died in 1942; the house was later inhabited by a series of residents, thereby acquiring its infamous name, "Bedbug House."
Some may remember the house as the Peggy Cornwall women's clothing shop before Warren Real Estate moved in and accomplished renovations to the Federal-style facade.
