Stately Italianate in the friendly hamlet of Brooktondale, near Brookton’s Market and the Brooktondale Community Center.  Spacious, well-proportioned rooms, tall ceilings, glowing plank floors, many original moldings and hardware.  Updated kitchen, convenient laundry/half bath off the family room.  An outstanding feature of the house is the warm natural light.  The windows are tall and wide, and an earlier owner created an ingenious second-floor atrium by removing the floor of the cupola.  The half-acre lot includes a large fenced area next to the house, a two-story barn, chicken coop, and vegetable and perennial gardens.  Brooktondale is six miles southeast of Ithaca and is served by TCat Bus route 53, which goes right past this house.