Want to know about our collections? Where things are located? What’s a database? Take an Avery Library tour!! Thursday Sept. 15, 2011 12:00-1:00 Friday Sept. 16, 2011 12:00-1:00 Monday Sept. 19, 2011 12:00-1:00 Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 12:00-1:00 Friday Sept. 23, 2011 12:00-1:00 Monday Sept. 26, 2011 12:00-1:00 Sign up for tours at the Service […]
Avery Library Remembers 9/11
Avery Library has a large collection of historical resource guides with links to older material on Rebuilding Downtown NYC. […]
Avery Classics resumes regular semester hours, with evening Thursday hours
On Tuesday, September 6–the first day of classes–the Avery Classics reading room will resume its regular semester hours. These are Monday through Friday, 1:00pm to 4:30pm; the reading room will also be open late on Thursday nights from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. You can confirm our opening hours on any day using our online calendar. To […]
Avery Library Hours- 1st week
1st week of school hours: Tues. Sept. 6: 9-5 Wed. Sept. 7; 9-9 Thurs. Sept. 8:9-9 Fri. Sept.9: 9-5 Sat. Sept. 10:11-7 Sun. Sept. 11: 12-8 Semester hours begin on Sept. 12. […]
Avery Library Welcomes Students!!
Welcome to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library! The Avery Library homepage has a lot of useful information including hours, services, subject and research guides, and information on our departments including Drawings & Archives, Avery Classics Collection (Rare Books) and the Avery Index . We are also on Facebook and Twitter so "like" us and […]
Thomas W. Lamb in the News
Yesterday’s New York Times brings welcome news regarding the future of the Victoria Theater on 125th Street in Harlem designed by Thomas Lamb, one of the major theater architects of the first half of the 20th century, whose archive is one of the most heavily used collections in the Drawings and Archives. The renovation of […]
Frederick Woodbridge at Antioch
Frederick Woodbridge was the excavation architect for the Antioch excavation in 1924. His drawings of the excavation, part of his archive at the Drawings and Archives, are featured in the new publication: Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC-AD700) published by the Kelsey Museum of the University of Michigan. […]
Carolyn Yerkes appointed Curator of Avery Classics
Carolyn Yerkes joins Avery Library this week as its new Curator of Avery Classics A long-time reader in Avery Classics, Carolyn is well acquainted with our outstanding collection and with the worldwide community of scholars who work here throughout the year. Her substantial knowledge of architectural history and history of the book will guide her […]
Happy Birthday Charles Follen McKim
Charles Follen McKim (Aug. 24, 1847-Sept. 14, 1909) was a member of the partnership McKim, Mead, and White– one of the most prominent American Beaux-Arts architects of the late 19th century. The firm designed the Boston Public Library, Pennsylvania Station (demolished), Madison Square Garden (demolished), University Club of New York, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the […]
New York Crystal Palace
Read more about Avery’s unique image of the New York Crystal Palace in the new article by Julie Mellby in the History of Photography —by Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings & Archives […]