The Alice Cook House is the first of five houses on West Campus that are part of the Residential Initiative at Cornell University. The House was named in honor of Cornell faculty member Alice Hanson Cook (1903-1998).

The House has its own dining room, leisure common area, library, pantry, guest suite and rooms for computing, seminars, academic support, and programs, engaging faculty, students, and staff in an environment of collegiality, civility, and stewardship.