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Located across from the Parc Montsouris in Paris’14th arrondissement, the Fondation des États-Unis is a private student residence and cultural center within the international community of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP). Among the first houses to be constructed was the Fondation des États-Unis, designed by the French architect Pierre Leprince-Ringuet. After two years of extensive construction, the Fondation held its opening ceremony on April 28, 1930 in the presence of its founders, American surgeon Homer Gage and his wife Mabel Gage, the American Ambassador Walter E. Edge, and Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Republic. The Fondation has conserved its Art Deco architecture and its Grand Salon is home to six rare frescoes by the Franco-American artist Robert La Montagne Saint Hubert. . In 2009, the Grand Salon was officially listed as a national historic monument of France. .

The Fondation des États-Unis offers 267 individual rooms for American and international students, including a select number of artists’ ateliers and music studios. The Fondation’s rich and varied cultural program, which includes concerts, workshops, conferences, exhibits and films, is open to the general public.

Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship
Bequeathed to the Fondation des États-Unis in the early 1930s, the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship is awarded annually to a select number of exceptional American artists and musicians who plan to pursue their studies in Paris. A scholarship is also available to one French, Swiss or American medical post-graduate specializing in psychiatry with an internship in a Parisian hospital.The candidates must present a detailed application describing the artistic project they wish to pursue in Paris. The Scholarship of €10,000 maximum (depending on fund earnings) covers the cost of the live-in artist or music studio and daily living expenses. The scholars are expected to regularly participate in the cultural life of the Fondation des États-Unis (art show openings, concerts...). .

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