25 Homer Ave Cortland

This home was built for the James Suggett family in the Italianate style and was occupied by the family until 1933. The Suggett House then became the property of James Suggett's great-grandson, John Chester Birdlebough who gifted the home to the Cortland County Historical Society for a museum and research library in 1963.
 
From "James Suggett and His 'Handsome Dwelling'" by Leslie Chree O'Malley and Bruce R. Buckley:
"Some information survives concerning the appearance of the house when the Suggett family occupied it. The exterior was painted in three tones, probably a cream with a darker brown trim and dark green shutters. The doors and window shutters were purchased from E.C. Dulver of Moravia, New York. Lace curtains and mahogany stained shutters covered the interior of the windows.
Downstairs, there were two parlors, a dining room with elegant maple and cherry woodwork and flooring, two kitchens, a pantry and a bedroom used first by the widowed Jane Suggett in her last illness and then by her twin daughters, Flora and Cora. The walls were covered with multi-colored wallpapers, borders, and ceiling papers.
The family kept warm with a stove in the kitchen and a Howe ventilating stove (made in Cortland) in the south parlor to provide sufficient heat to rise into the six bedrooms upstairs. By the early twentieth century, these bedrooms were used to store over 2,000 books belonging to the Suggetts' son, John.
Soft water for washing was provided by a cistern in the cellar to catch rainwater from the roof while one of James Suggett's wells supplied drinking water. An outhouse behind the kitchen was used until the house was connected with the municipal water and sewer system in 1928."