The Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project

Stevenson Library

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Stevenson Library (at left, with Hoffman Library at right), Bard College

Stevenson Library (Hoffman & Kellogg Libraries), Bard College

Institution Name: Bard College
Original/Historic Place Name: Hoffman Library
Location on Campus: on a small knoll at the northern end of the main campus road on the west side.
Date(s) of Construction:

1893-1895	original construction; Hoffman Library
1976	addition of Kellogg wing
1993	original construction; Stevenson Library Venturi, Robert

Designer: Robert Venturi
Type of Place: Individual building
Style: Beaux-Arts classicism, Contemporary, Other (Glossary)
Significance: architecture, education
Narrative: see below
References: see below

Materials:

Foundation: Hoffman/Kellogg: stone; Stevenson: concrete

Walls: brick

Roof: Hoffman/Kellogg: metal; Stevenson: flat

Function:

1893-present (2006)

library

Narrative:
The Bard College library is composed of the classical Hoffman building (based on an Ionic temple with pediments facing east and west); the Kellogg wing; and the new main library building, the Stevenson. The earliest of them, the Hoffman, was built through a gift by the college's most generous 19th-century patron. The architect of the Stevenson Library was Robert Venturi.

References:

Hudson River Historic District [including Bard College]. National Register of Historic Places designation report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior/National Park Service, 1990.