Avery Hall stands at 1172 Amsterdam Avenue on Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. McKim, Mead & White designed the building, which houses the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. The library holds more than 400,000 volumes and receives about 900 periodicals. It serves Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
The library began as a memorial. After the architect Henry Ogden Avery died in 1890, his parents, Samuel Putnam Avery and Mary Ogden Avery, gave his collection of 2,000 books, many of his original drawings and $30,000 to build the collection and create an endowment.
The building also holds the Avery Classics Collection and the Avery Drawings and Archives. Columbia's building bibliography lists a 1970s extension of Avery Library. The opening year of about 1912 is an assumption, drawn from the library's 2012 centennial post, and the sources do not state a style.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from Wikipedia: Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Libraries: McKim, Mead & White at Avery, Columbia University Libraries: Morningside campus buildings guide.
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