University Suburb: Founding the Village of Cayuga Heights in Ithaca, New York
Early in the twentieth century, two Cornell alumni created a suburb adjacent to the campus of their alma matter “far above Cayuga’s waters” in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Named Cayuga Heights, at the suggestion of one of their workmen, a handful of professors turned what would otherwise have been just another faculty enclave in an American college town into an incorporated municipality that has thrived ever since.
Beatrice Szekely, long-time resident, retired Cornell administrator, and former trustee of the Village of Cayuga Heights tells this origin story in University Suburb. Land purchases, road construction, and landscape design take place against a rich backdrop of town-gown relations and politics in the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County.
Early in the twentieth century, two Cornell alumni created a suburb adjacent to the campus of their alma matter “far above Cayuga’s waters” in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Named Cayuga Heights, at the suggestion of one of their workmen, a handful of professors turned what would otherwise have been just another faculty enclave in an American college town into an incorporated municipality that has thrived ever since.
Beatrice Szekely, long-time resident, retired Cornell administrator, and former trustee of the Village of Cayuga Heights tells this origin story in University Suburb. Land purchases, road construction, and landscape design take place against a rich backdrop of town-gown relations and politics in the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County.
Early in the twentieth century, two Cornell alumni created a suburb adjacent to the campus of their alma matter “far above Cayuga’s waters” in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Named Cayuga Heights, at the suggestion of one of their workmen, a handful of professors turned what would otherwise have been just another faculty enclave in an American college town into an incorporated municipality that has thrived ever since.
Beatrice Szekely, long-time resident, retired Cornell administrator, and former trustee of the Village of Cayuga Heights tells this origin story in University Suburb. Land purchases, road construction, and landscape design take place against a rich backdrop of town-gown relations and politics in the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County.
