Maison Française
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La Maison Française is the french language house of Columbia University. Founded in 1913, it is the oldest such french cultural center on an American university campus. Originally housed in its own dedicated townhouse on 117th Street, which was demolished to make way for the International Affairs Buildings, it moved into Buell Hall (where it shares space with GSAPP) in 1977 after a decade at 560 W. 113th Street, prompted by building code violations at its temporary home.[1]
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- ↑ http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19771012-01.2.5 Interestingly, Maison Française was able to move into Buell only because Deutsches Haus had flat out refused to move there when it too was kicked out of its temporary home on 113th street for building code violations in 1974
