Alumni Hall, formerly Alumni Library, stands at 350 East Spring Street at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Frank Packard of Columbus designed it in the Lombardic Romanesque style, and it opened in 1910. Andrew Carnegie offered a $40,000 grant in 1905, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York funded construction.
The first building had a main reading room for 192 people and stacks for 150,000 volumes. Its shelves were full by 1911. Ralph Ridley designed an eastern wing in 1922, and Potter Tyler & Martin designed a western wing in 1951.
The Department of Architecture moved in during 1972. In 1997 Thomas H. Beeby led the largest renovation, turning the southern stacks into an atrium and adding a southern wing. The building has 95,765 square feet (8,897 square meters) of floor area. It houses the Department of Architecture and Interior Design studios and the Wertz Art and Architecture Library.
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