Editing Ithaca College (section)

===Beginnings===
[[File:Boardman_House,_Ithaca_NY.jpg|thumb|right|Boardman House, the original site of Ithaca Conservatory of Music]]
Ithaca College was founded as the ''Ithaca Conservatory of Music'' in 1892 when a local [[violin]] teacher, William Grant Egbert, rented four rooms and arranged for the instruction of eight students. For nearly seven decades the institution flourished in the city of Ithaca, adding to its music curriculum the study of [[elocution]], dance, physical education, speech correction, radio, business, and the liberal arts. In 1931 the conservatory was chartered as a private college under its current name, ''Ithaca College''. The college was originally in the [[Boardman House (Ithaca, New York)|Boardman House]]; that building later became the Ithaca College Museum of Art, and it was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1971.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>