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New York - Ithaca - Points of Interest The CITY HALL, NE. corner of Seneca and Tioga Sts., erected in 1842, is a rectangular building of red brick and white wood trim, with elevated front portico and a stepped wood tower rising from the roof. On the upper floor are the city offices; the first floor is given over to the police department, city court, and fire station. The CORNELL ( Ithaca Public) LIBRARY, 115 N.Tioga St., a red brick building of the Civil War period, was erected and endowed by Ezra Cornell in 1864. Besides the library, the building houses offices of the WPA and the city welfare department. ITHACA COLLEGE, comprises a group of structures around De Witt Park and several additional buildings in the downtown section of the city. It includes departments of music, speech and dramatic art, and physical education. The student body, men and women, numbers 350. Begun in 1892 as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, the college was chartered by the Board of Regents in 1931. The TOMPKINS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, corner of Court and N.Tioga Sts., is a modern classical building erected in 1931. In it are the headquarters and exhibit rooms of the De Witt Historical Society of Tompkins County. The exhibits include Indian and Colonial relics and many items relating to local history. STEWART PARK, at the head of Cayuga lake, the principal public park of the city, includes a bathing beach with bathhouses, picnic grounds, athletic fields, a small zoo, and the Renwick Bird Sanctuary and Fuertes Wild Foul Sanctuary, which provide refuge for more than 300 species of birds. These sanctuaries were made possible by gifts from local citizens and were developed with the co-operation of the Department of Ornithology of Cornell University. The memorial gateway at the waterfowl pond bears a bronze plaque in honor of Louis Agassiz Fuertes ( 1874-1927), native of Ithaca, ornithologist, and internationally known painter of bird pictures, many of the originals of which hang in the State Museum at Albany. He also supervised the designing and construction of several famous bird groups in the Museum of Natural History, New York City. Ithaca, New York, USA Photographic Print Buy at AllPosters.com Greetings from Ithaca, New York Pre-Matted Print Buy at AllPosters.com