Location from Marvel Comics by Marvel Entertainment
A Westchester County mansion doubling as the world's premier mutant training facility. Publicly a private school for exceptional children; secretly the headquarters of the X-Men.
Xavier's School operates on two levels, literally and philosophically. Upstairs, it is genuinely a school — classrooms where young mutants learn algebra alongside control of their powers, dormitories where teenagers deal with the usual drama of adolescence complicated by the ability to phase through walls or accidentally set things on fire. The grounds smell of cut grass in summer and woodsmoke in autumn. Downstairs, it is a paramilitary installation. The Danger Room generates hard-light combat simulations that could kill an unprepared trainee. Cerebro amplifies telepathic abilities to a planetary scale, allowing its operator to locate any mutant mind on Earth. The mansion has been destroyed and rebuilt so many times that the current structure incorporates Shi'ar construction materials and Forge-designed defense systems. Students joke grimly about evacuation drills. Charles Xavier built this place on the belief that humans and mutants can coexist — a belief tested every time Sentinels darken the sky above Westchester.
A sprawling Victorian-era estate set on manicured grounds in Salem Center, Westchester. The mansion itself is elegant brownstone and white trim, three stories of bay windows and peaked gables surrounded by oak-lined paths and rolling lawns. Basketball courts and garden beds give it the look of any prestigious prep school. Below ground, gleaming steel corridors and blue-lit chambers tell the real story — Cerebro's spherical chamber, the Danger Room, a full medical bay, and a hangar for the Blackbird jet.
Also known as: the mansion, Xavier's, the School, X-Mansion