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Casa Italiana

1927 establishments in New York CityBuildings and structures completed in 1927Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in ManhattanColumbia University campusMcKim, Mead & White buildings
Morningside Heights, ManhattanUniversity and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Casa Italiana Columbia University (52009651864)
Casa Italiana Columbia University (52009651864)

Casa Italiana is a building at Columbia University located at 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between West 116th and 118th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, which houses the university's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. It was built in 1926–27 and was designed by William M. Kendall of McKim, Mead & White in the Renaissance style, modeled after a 15th-century Roman palazzo. The building was restored, and the east facade completed, in 1996 by Buttrick White & Burtis with Italo Rota as associate architect.

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