Depending on whom you ask, Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, which began a lengthy 150th anniversary program this year that will culminate in 2014 with an exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, has anywhere between 20 and 100 years left as an active cemetery (that’s the industry term for a place that […]
Category: Drawings & Archives
Woodlawn Cemetery preservation grant
Tremendous news! The Woodlawn Cemetery was awarded a preservation grant of $150,000 from American Express/National Trust for Historic Preservation for participating in the Partners in Preservation NYC Initiative. They received 100% of the requested funds to restore the Belmont Mausoleum! A BIG THANKS goes out to EVERYONE around the globe that supported them in this […]
Graduate Archival Interns
Drawings and Archives welcomes our new Graduate Archival Interns for 2012-2013. Emily Rinaldi (GSAPP-HP) will be working on the papers of the architect Alan Burnham (1913-1984), an early preservationist supporting the foundation of the New York City Landmarks Commission . Pamela Casey (MFA-Writing) will be processing the papers of another notable New Yorker, Henry Hope […]
About the Edgar A. Tafel Archive blog–NEW Avery blog
Avery Library Drawings & Archives Department has a new blog!! Welcome to the "About the Edgar A. Tafel Archive" blog!! Tania Franco, the new archivist for the Edgar A. Tafel Archives, will document the processing of the archive until its eventual publication in an online finding aid. She also intends to highlight some fascinating findings […]
V’SOSKE Rugs by Architects, Architecture in Transition
There will be an exhibition of: V'SOSKE Rugs by Architects, Architecture in Transition at the Center for Architecture, AIANY Chapter, from May 14-28, 2012. Avery Library Drawings & Archives has drawings and a large painting of Roger Ferri's design for his V'soske rug in the Roger C. Ferri archive. […]
Sacred Sites Open House this weekend
The weekend of May 19-20 is the Open House for the Sacred Sites Program run by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The Conservancy is one of the only organizations that provides funding and technical assistance to religious properties, which often are not eligible for other preservation funding. Since 1986, they have funded more than 660 […]
Vote for Woodlawn Cemetery!!!!
Today at 11 am the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced the 40 sites competing in the Partners in Preservation program. Woodlawn Cemetery is one of them!!! Their "GET OUT THE VOTE" began today at noon and runs until the end of the voting period – midnight, May 21st. Avery Library, as the owner of […]
Tania Franco joins Avery Drawings & Archives
We welcome Tania Franco this week to the Avery Library as the Project Archivist for the Edgar Tafel archive in the Drawings and Archives. Tania joins the Avery staff from Montreal where she earned a Master of Library and Information Studies at McGill University in 2010 as an H.W. Wilson Scholar. Her professional experience includes […]
Avery in Modernism Magazine
Architect Wallace K. Harrison visited New York's Allied Arts Exhibition in 1931, and purchased the Aluminaire House for $1,000. Built of steel and aluminum, it was designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher. He had it dismantled and transported to a 25-acre site he had purchased in Huntington, Long Island, to serve as his […]
Avery congratulates Streetscapes
Avery Library congratulates NY Times Streetscapes column on its 25th anniversary Mar. 17!! A wonderful column about the history of New York architecture and real estate it provides a valuable tool for readers conducting research or simply interested in preservation and architecture. Christopher Gray, column editor, frequently uses Avery Library material and his researcher, Suzanne […]