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Butler Library

The main library, 1934, facing Low across the lawns, with the names of the ancient authors carved along the frieze. Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, and so on, in the order a classicist would put them.

Guide's tip. Card access only. The frieze is best read from the lawn.

On a walking tour. Stop 4 of 10 on the walking tour Columbia, the Morningside campus, every stop on a map in walking order.

about 10 min for a visit