{"id":43324,"date":"2024-10-31T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=43324"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:39:16","slug":"white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The A.D. White House: Andrew\u2019s Abode Is a Campus Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Commissioned by Cornell\u2019s inaugural president, the villa later became an art museum\u2014and has long hosted a humanities group<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It was the stately home of the University\u2019s cofounder and first president, and once stood alongside a handful of other Victorian-era faculty houses and cottages lining what was then the edge of campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the A.D. White House still sits grandly atop its knoll\u2014with a large circular driveway curving gracefully out front and a spread of lovingly cultivated gardens at back. But now, the three-story villa is located at the heart of a much-expanded campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Rear view of the A.D. White House and gardens\" class=\"wp-image-43200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-1264x711.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-632x356.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-316x178.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2024_1248_RY_0275-A.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">Ryan Young \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The back gardens were originally planted by White&#8217;s second wife.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn its hillock, crowning all, stood the President\u2019s House \u2026 which can only be called a mansion [and] still pleases the contemplative eye,\u201d Morris Bishop 1914, PhD 1926, wrote in <em>A History of Cornell<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe detail, the interior finish, betray White\u2019s liking for fine workmanship and for uplifting symbolism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The detail, the interior finish, betray White\u2019s liking for fine workmanship and for uplifting symbolism.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Morris Bishop 1914, PhD 1926<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The style of the house, Bishop noted, was the antithesis of the \u201cgrim, gray, sturdy, and economical\u201d buildings that first populated the Arts Quad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as Old Stone Row, those three original halls\u2014Morrill, McGraw, and White\u2014had been closely associated with the more utilitarian style of founder Ezra Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-1024x815.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Dickson White in his library in the President's House, circa 1885\u201391\" class=\"wp-image-43205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-1536x1222.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-1264x1006.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-632x503.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-316x251.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-400x318.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-200x159.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A-100x80.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-Library-Classic-A.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White, barely visible in the background, appears dwarfed by his library in the late 1800s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Sage Chapel and Sage College, the house was \u201cromantic Upstate gothic, quaintly pinnacled and bedizened,\u201d Bishop wrote, describing these additions to the growing campus as embodying \u201cthe taste and soul of Andrew D. White.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jump ahead to 2024: for the past half century, the building has been home to the <a href=\"https:\/\/societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society for the Humanities<\/a>, an Arts &amp; Sciences research institute that brings scholars together for seminars, courses, and interdisciplinary projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(And the road it overlooks\u2014formerly East Avenue\u2014is now called Feeney Way, renamed in 2021 in honor of foremost benefactor Charles Feeney \u201956.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"View of the doors and paneling in the dining room of the A.D. White House. The wood panels date from the mid-17th century, but aren't original to the house; they were removed from a New York City residence and installed in 1953\" class=\"wp-image-43199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-1264x711.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-632x356.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-316x178.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/2015_0054_004-A.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">Jason Koski \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The dining room paneling was relocated from an NYC residence and installed during a 1953 renovation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With an eye toward honoring the house\u2019s storied history, Interim President Mike Kotlikoff hopes to host official functions there, bringing Cornellians together through its doors and on its grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe A.D. White House is a treasure on our central campus, and a wonderful link to Cornell\u2019s first president,\u201d Kotlikoff says. \u201cBeing able to use it as a place to connect with our community, as A.D. White did, is especially meaningful to me as interim president.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The A.D. White House is a treasure on our central campus, and a wonderful link to Cornell\u2019s first president.<\/p>\n<cite>Interim President <strong>Mike Kotlikoff<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The house traces its history to 1871, when White asked an NYC architect to draw up early plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then commissioned the University\u2019s first architecture professor, Charles Babcock, and one of its earliest alumni, William Henry Miller 1872, to adapt and implement the design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both would make their mark on East Hill and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1014\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-1014x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The President's House, circa 1880\" class=\"wp-image-43202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-1014x1024.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-768x776.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-1521x1536.jpg 1521w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-1264x1277.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-632x638.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-316x319.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-400x404.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-200x202.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A-100x101.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_House_with_buggy_RMC2004_0074-A.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Victorian vibes: The house in 1880.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Babcock was the architect of Sage Chapel, Sage College (now Sage Hall), and numerous other faculty homes and cottages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller designed Uris Library and its attached McGraw Tower as well as Risley Hall, the old Ithaca High School (now downtown\u2019s DeWitt Mall), and his share of faculty dwellings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constructed in high Victorian Gothic style, the A.D. White House was completed in 1874 on the hilltop that was then called Breezy Knoll, becoming home to White and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Stone carvings by an artisan who also worked on Llenroc\u2014Ezra Cornell\u2019s mansion\u2014grace the exterior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(White referred to the man as <em>magister de vivis lapidibus<\/em> \u2014Latin for \u201cteacher of living stone.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interiors include a long and broad central hallway, open to the second floor through a central balustrade; heavily carved sideboards and staircases with walnut newels; a large parlor that served as a music room; a grand, floor-to-ceiling library; and a family room, a dining room, and living quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Whites filled the house with art, furniture, and collections that they brought back from Europe during their many travels.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"962\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Dickson White pictured in front of the President's House, undated photo\" class=\"wp-image-43362 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop.jpg 641w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop-526x790.jpg 526w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop-263x395.jpg 263w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/ADW-in-front-of-screened-porch-A_crop-83x125.jpg 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><figcaption>White on the grounds in the early 1900s.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew lived there not only through the end of his presidency in 1885, but until his death in 1918. (He also expanded the house with an addition to the south end in 1912.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It then served as the official home of presidents Livingston Farrand (in office from 1921\u201337) and Edmund Ezra Day (1937\u201349).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The back gardens were first cultivated by White\u2019s second wife, Helen Magill White\u2014also notable as the first woman in the U.S. to earn a doctorate\u2014and greatly expanded by Farrand\u2019s wife, Daisy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/AD_White_Museum_interior_1967_6271-A-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"View of the interior of the A.D. 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