Henry Ogden Avery architectural drawings and papers3460582Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-15 18:33:56 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Henry Ogden Avery architectural drawings and papers Avery, Henry Ogden, 1852-1890 André, Jules Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 1834-1904 École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France). Atelier Jules André 3460582 English . /repositories/3/resources/593 320 drawings 2 linear feet papers 1872-1890 Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

 Summary

Included are drawings made by Avery while studying under Jules Andre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and sketchbooks containing sketches made in Paris and on excursions, 1872-1879. Architectural drawings and photographs of architectural drawings for proposed or executed residential and commercial buildings, churches, art galleries, monuments, and other structures, 1880s; competition drawings for public monuments, 1883-1887; experimental studies, 1885, for the pedestal of Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty; and 39 studies and finished drawings, 1888-1890, made for a competition for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant which he did not win. Also, magazine articles by or about Avery and his work, 1883-1890; obituaries and death announcements, 1890; miscellaneous photographs, certificates, and papers; and invitations, clippings, illustrations, and photographs, circa 1892-1894, relating to the founding of the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University.

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Avery Drawings & Archives maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator or their heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron. Contact avery-drawings@columbia.edu for more information.

 Biographical / Historical

Architect. Avery was born in Brooklyn. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, he returned to New York and worked in the office of Richard Morris Hunt until starting his own practice in 1883. The Avery Library at Columbia University was founded by his parents in his memory. The library was renamed the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in 1978.

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 Architecture -- Competitions Architecture -- Study and teaching Architecture -- Sketch-books Architectural libraries -- New York (State) -- New York Architecture, Domestic Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) Art museums Commercial buildings Dwellings Monuments Memorials Church buildings Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) -- Pedestal General Grant National Memorial (New York, N.Y.) Drawings (visual works) Photographic prints architectural drawings (visual works) Sketchbooks Architects Avery Library Request Collection: Henry Ogden Avery architectural drawings and papers, 1872-1890/repositories/3/archival_objects/1708454Request Collection