International House of New York
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| Founder(s) | Harry Edmonds, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
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| Founded | 1909 |
| Location | New York City, USA |
| Key people | Donald L. Cuneo - President, Paul Adolph Volcker - Chairman of the Board of Trustees |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Focus | Education and International Collaboration |
| Endowment | $35 million |
| Employees | 70 |
| Members | Current 700 residents, 65,000 alumni |
| Website | http://www.ihouse-nyc.org |
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International House
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| Location: | 500 Riverside Drive, New York, New York |
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| Coordinates: | 40°48′49″N 73°57′43″W / 40.81361°N 73.96194°WCoordinates: 40°48′49″N 73°57′43″W / 40.81361°N 73.96194°W |
| Area: | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built: | 1924 |
| Architect: | Louis E. Jallade; Marc Eidlitz and Sons |
| Architectural style: | Renaissance |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 99001129[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | September 10, 1999 |
International House New York, also known as I-House, is an unaffiliated and non-profit residence hall (and program center) for graduate students, scholars engaging in research, trainees and interns. Students attend various universities and schools throughout the City of New York, including Columbia University, Juilliard School, Actors' Studio Drama School, New York University, the Manhattan School of Music, the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, the Teachers College, Columbia University, and the City University of New York, among others.[2][3]
Housing 700 students from over 100 countries (with about one-third of those coming from the United States), International House is currently located at 500 Riverside Drive, next to Grant's Tomb in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The original entrance to International House is inscribed with the motto written by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "That Brotherhood May Prevail"; the piazza (The Abby O'Neil Patio) of its entrance opens into Sakura Park.
The 500 Riverside Drive building, designed by architects Louis E. Jallade and Marc Eidlitz and Sons, was built in 1924 and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as International House in 1999.[1]
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[edit] History
The initial impetus for forming I House was when, after a chance encounter with a lonely Chinese graduate student at Columbia University in 1909, YMCA official Harry Edmonds, began efforts to obtain funding to form the house in order to foster relationships between students from different countries. International House was finally created in 1924 with funding from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (who later funded identical houses at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley), as well as the Cleveland H. Dodge family. Other Rockefeller family members to have served on the board of trustees include Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, David and Peggy Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby O'Neill.
International House was one of the first of many international houses in a coast-to-coast movement to create a safe space for international students seeking to further their education. The first International House is International House Philadelphia. Other cities with international houses include: Berkeley, Chicago, London, Melbourne, Brisbane (Australia), and Paris.
The chairman of the Board of Trustees is former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Paul A. Volcker. The Chairman of the Board's Executive Committee is William D. Rueckert, a member of the Dodge family, whose generous gifts contributed to the development of both International House and the Columbia University Teachers College.
I House's current president is Donald L. Cuneo, an alumnus of I House and Columbia University's law and business schools.
[edit] Trustees and Board Members
[edit] Current Chairman of the Board
[edit] Honorary Trustees
- David Rockefeller
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Abby M. O'Neill
- Daisy M. Soros '51
- John C. Whitehead
[edit] Chairman of the Executive Committee
- William D. Rueckert - Oyster Management Group, LLC
[edit] Past Chairmen of the Board
- George W. Wickersham
- Henry L. Stimson
- George C. Marshall
- John J. McCloy
- Charles W. Yost
- George W. Ball
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Gerald R. Ford
- John C. Whitehead
[edit] Past Honorary Chairman
[edit] Notable Alumni
There are currently 65,000 living I-House alumni worldwide. Among the more notable:
- Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, author of Things Fall Apart
- Pina Bausch, German chroreographer
- Leonard Cohen, poet and songwriter
- Kiran Desai, author
- Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
- Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican novelist
- Burl Ives, actor
- Jerzy Kosinski, writer, author of Being There
- Wassily Leontief, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Flora Lewis, journalist
- Mark Mathabane, South African writer, author of Kaffir Boy
- Ashley Montague, anthropologist
- Dale Peck, US writer, novelist, literary columnist and critic
- I.M. Pei, architect
- Leontyne Price, opera star
- Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- David Sainsbury, British supermarket magnate
- Katia Tiutiunnik, Australian composer
- Shirley Verrett, opera star
- James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ http://www.ihouse-nyc.org/s/707/start.aspx international house
- ^ http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-11670514-international_house-i I House description
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