Butler Library is located on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University at 535 West 114th Street, in Manhattan, New York City. It is the university's largest single library with over 2 million volumes, as well as one of the largest buildings on the campus. It houses the Columbia University Libraries collections in the humanities, history, social sciences, literature, philosophy, and religion, and the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Butler Library at Columbia University in New York City
The 1954 unveiling of the 12-foot stained-glass window depicting Peter Stuyvesant in Butler 209, given to the university by the Netherlands Antillean government in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam and the Columbia University Bicentennial
Butler Library within the architectural context of the surrounding McKim, Mead & White buildings
The Lawrence A. Wien Reference Room, the main reading room of Butler Library
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private, Ivy League, research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States and is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Samuel Johnson, the first president of Columbia
King's College Hall in 1790
Low Memorial Library, c. 1900
Alma Mater, by Daniel Chester French (1903)
