Cascadilla Corner

104 Lake Avenue | 10 bedrooms & 5 bathrooms | $825/month. (Small rooms $725.) NON-SMOKING
Exterior view of 104 Lake Avenue Ithaca (Cascadilla Corner) Victorian co-op home, painted in shades of pink.

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Ten bedrooms and five baths, this big-and-boxy Queen Anne began life in the late 1890s (or the very early 1900s) as a two-family side-by-side duplex. In the early mid-century it was purchased by Ithaca Conservatory of Music (the original Ithaca College, in the Boardman House off Dewitt Park) to use as a women’s dormitory. Over the following decades, the house has been reinvented numerous times, once serving as a home for unwed mothers, and as various flavors of boarding house, on a scale from bed-and-breakfast to flophouse. When we purchased it in early 2021, it had fallen on hard times, housing 12 people with one working shower among them, no dining room and barely a kitchen, and a spectacularly leaky asbestos roof and balconies.

The woodwork and oak floors are original, and we uncovered the original pillars between the kitchen and dining room. The house is full of copper sprinkler pipes installed early in the boarding-house days, now accompanied by 1940s light fixtures that we installed throughout to go along with that old-time boarding-house vibe. The common areas are full of quirky art.

All of our houses are theoretically pet-friendly, but due to tenants’ allergies, the current housemates at Cascadilla Corner prefer a “no-pet,” dander-free house, so if you’re allergic to small-and-furries, this is your place. Non-smoking inside and out (including all balconies and porches).

This house also received an award of merit for historic preservation.

  • Fully furnished; two full and eight queen beds; large closets
  • Central Air, with whole-house Hepa filter system
  • Large Victorian windows with blinds and thermal blackout curtains
  • Semi-private baths with individual medicine cabinets and linen storage; one with 36 x 48 shower only; four with full tub-shower
  • Gourmet kitchen with two dishwashers, two induction stoves, two microwaves, three refrigerators and upright freezer, double sink and secondary prep sink, 6-foot butcher block island, large walk-in pantry.
  • Separate communal dining room
  • Mudroom
  • Laundry room with front-loading W/D
  • Double living room with large-screen LED TV, bar with beverage fridge, and separate sitting area
  • Three first-floor porches/decks and three upstairs balconies
  • Utilities and 1GB internet included; mesh WiFi coverage
  • On-street parking in neighborhood
  • Basement storage, including plenty of secure bike storage
  • Convenient location across from Gimme Coffee and near bus hub
  • Non-smoking