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Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Casa Italiana is a building of Columbia University located at 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. 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.