Henry Ogden Avery

An Architect

The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia is named for him.

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Avery Library is named for New York architect Henry Ogden Avery, a friend of William Robert Ware, who was appointed the first professor of architecture at Columbia University in 1881. Soon after Avery's untimely death in 1890, his parents, Samuel Putnam Avery and Mary Ogden Avery, established the library as a memorial to their son. They offered his collection of 2,000 books, mostly in architecture, archaeology, and the decorative arts, many of his original drawings, as well as funds to round out the book collection and to create an endowment. The Library now holds more than 400,000 volumes and currently receives approximately 900 periodicals, with legacy holdings of approximately 1,900 serial titles. The library's historic first-level reading room is a significant example of work by the New York architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White.