Xavier School For Gifted Youngsters
Built on a sprawling estate in the 1700’s by a Dutch ancestor of Charles Xavier’s, the mansion was originally built from stone on the edge of Breakstone Lake. As home to the X-Men, the Institute is often referred to as the “X-Men mansion“ or even “X-mansion”. It is located three miles outside of Salem Center and some forty miles outside of New York City.
The Institute's address is:
1407 Graymalkin Lane
Salem Center Westchest County, New York, United States.
The First Floor
The first floor of the mansion is not unlike any other average mansion, as it consists of the main entrance to the mansion, a large kitchen and dining room, a large library, informal sitting rooms, Charles Xavier’s personal space, as well as his office and a grand staircase that leads to the second floor. However, the main Cerebro terminal is also on the first floor - something not all mansions can boast to owning.
The Second Floor
The second floor is mainly comprised of living quarters separated into two wings for the X-Men, who live at Xavier’s. Each person is allowed to decorate their living quarters to suit their taste. Xavier also has living quarters on the second floor, directly above his ground floor space. Bathrooms are plentiful and scattered throughout both wings.
The Attic
The attic is an expansive space atop the mansion with a huge skylight. The attic also holds a large playroom and much storage space.
The Basement
The first sub-level of the mansion serves as a regular basement - a large book storage, space to store unneeded furniture, a large laundry room, hot water cylinders, oil heater and fuel supplies, the auxiliary generator and wine cellar. There was also a psi-shielded room, the so-called Z’Nox chamber. Also situated in the basement, is the main computer memory and the Shi’ar back-up power supply.
Sub-Basement - Level One
The sub-basements of the mansion are more recent additions, not part of the original design of the mansion. The first sub-basement is decked out with various labs - chemical, physics, and electronics, as well as large medical research and operating rooms. A 25-bed recovery room, and robotics research development round out the first side of the sub-basement. The second side is comprised of a regular gymnasium, pool, artificial sun deck, sauna, steam room, massage room and showers. Additionally, the high-speed personnel transport rail cars are linked from this sub-basement to the hanger bay.
Sub-Basement - Level Two
The second sub-basement has a lot of Shi’ar technology added into it, and is full of various defense mechanisms to support the powerful technology. One of the main aspects of this level is the Danger Room. Whereas the original Danger Room was on the mansions first floor, the second, improved one is much larger and has Shi’ar technology weaved into it to create very-real situations to test the X-Men's battle strategy and teamwork. The Danger Room has restricted access and clearance is needed to get into it. The rest of this level is comprised of the important Ready Room and mission planning facilities like a small library, Cerebro and crime files which are on back up computers, and emergency reserve living quarters.