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The President's House at Columbia University is located at the intersection between 116th Street and Morningside Drive, on the university's Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1912, it is the official residence of the president of Columbia University. It was first occupied by Nicholas Murray Butler, and with the exception of acting president Frank D. Fackenthal and president Michael Sovern, it has been the residence of every university president since its construction. During the period between the beginning of the Dwight D. Eisenhower

History
An official residence for the university president was originally planned upon the university's relocation from its former campus on Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights in 1897. Original designs for the campus layout by McKim, Mead & White included such a residence, either as a freestanding building or as part of an administration building. However, the building was not considered a priority for Columbia until 1909, when the university acquired the land for East Campus, on which the house is located. The plot was originally imagined as a new campus for the College of Physicians and Surgeons, though it was eventually decided that the president's residence would be built there through the efforts of Nicholas Murray Butler, out of a desire either not to live directly on campus or to take advantage of the view of Harlem from the site. Butler occupied the house for 33 years, and yielded it to incoming president Dwight D. Eisenhower, two years after his resignation.

Under Eisenhower, the house was run by his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, dubbed the "first lady" of Columbia University by Martin Teasley. The fifth floor penthouse, which was formerly used as a storage space, was converted to a studio for Eisenhower's amateur painting.

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