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Telluride House (217 West Avenue) — Cornell University
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Telluride House (217 West Avenue)

📍 217 West Avenue, Ithaca, NY
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🏛 House🚿 Semi-Private Bathroom👥 Co-Ed❄️ No AC📍 Off-Campus🏢 3 floors

About Telluride House (217 West Avenue)

Telluride House at Cornell is the residential branch of the Telluride Association at Cornell — a merit-based, tuition-free academic-living community founded in 1910 and located at 217 West Avenue, near campus. House members are admitted via a competitive academic competition and live tuition- and room-and-board-free. The house operates with significant student self-governance. Notable past residents include Nobel laureate Sheldon Lee Glashow '54 (Physics) and labor leader Jack Sheinkman '49 (also a Watermargin Co-Op founder). Source: The Cornell Daily Sun (Nov 2011) and Watermargin 75th Anniversary article on Cornellians (Jan 2024).

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