The weekend of May 19-20 is the Open House for the Sacred Sites Program run by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The Conservancy is one of the only organizations that provides funding and technical assistance to religious properties, which often are not eligible for other preservation funding. Since 1986, they have funded more than 660 […]
Category: Drawings & Archives
Vote for Woodlawn Cemetery!!!!
Today at 11 am the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced the 40 sites competing in the Partners in Preservation program. Woodlawn Cemetery is one of them!!! Their "GET OUT THE VOTE" began today at noon and runs until the end of the voting period – midnight, May 21st. Avery Library, as the owner of […]
Tania Franco joins Avery Drawings & Archives
We welcome Tania Franco this week to the Avery Library as the Project Archivist for the Edgar Tafel archive in the Drawings and Archives. Tania joins the Avery staff from Montreal where she earned a Master of Library and Information Studies at McGill University in 2010 as an H.W. Wilson Scholar. Her professional experience includes […]
Avery in Modernism Magazine
Architect Wallace K. Harrison visited New York's Allied Arts Exhibition in 1931, and purchased the Aluminaire House for $1,000. Built of steel and aluminum, it was designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher. He had it dismantled and transported to a 25-acre site he had purchased in Huntington, Long Island, to serve as his […]
Avery congratulates Streetscapes
Avery Library congratulates NY Times Streetscapes column on its 25th anniversary Mar. 17!! A wonderful column about the history of New York architecture and real estate it provides a valuable tool for readers conducting research or simply interested in preservation and architecture. Christopher Gray, column editor, frequently uses Avery Library material and his researcher, Suzanne […]
Felix Candela: A Symposium
FELIX CANDELA: A SYMPOSIUM Columbia University 501 Schermerhorn Hall Saturday, February 11, 2012 Free and open to the public In conjunction with the exhibition Felix Candela, the Wallach Art Gallery and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library present a symposium on his life and work. Félix Candela is regarded as one the […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Acquires the Edgar A. Tafel Archive
NEW YORK, January 17, 2012 – The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the donation of the architectural archives and research files of architect and historian Edgar Tafel, as well as a $100,000 gift to support the processing, preservation, and presentation of the collection. The donation was made by the Edgar […]
Avery Library open on MLK
Please note that Avery Library will be open on Monday, January 16th with the following exceptions: Avery Classics, Drawings & Archives, Art Properties, Avery Index and Bibliographic Services will be closed. We will operate with minimal public service staff levels to accommodate researchers for the day. See our hours. […]
Avery Photos of Beekman Tower Hotel
Photos from the Avery Library Drawings & Archives Collection of the interior of the Beekman Tower Hotel (Panhellenic House) were used in the Dec. 1, 2011 Christopher Gray "Streetscapes" column in the NY Times. […]
Avery Library Remembers Our Veterans
Today is Veterans Day. Avery Library has a great deal of material related to monuments, memorials and military architecture. Our Drawings & Archives collection has Henry Ogden Avery‘s competition entry for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant [unbuilt] as well as drawings by Harold Van Buren Magonigle for a World War I Veterans Memorial in […]