Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, The Carriage House Café's location in Ithaca, New York, dates back over 150 years to when the prominent Gauntlet family built the structure in order to house horses, carriages, and to store hay. With the invention of the Model-T in 1912, the carriage house outlived its usefulness as a shelter for horses, and so, like many other carriage houses, it was converted into a storage facility. Before long, however, the building became the victim of a catastrophic fire that was accidentally set by a tinsmith, and so it sat abandoned for nearly a century.