Julia Ideson Building
Julia Ideson Building
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Julia Ideson Building
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Location | 500 McKinney Street Houston, Texas |
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Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
Built | 1926 |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Other, Spanish Renaissance |
NRHP Reference # | 77001447[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 23, 1977 |
The Julia Ideson Building is a Houston Public Library facility in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.
The building, with Spanish Renaissance architecture,[2] is part of the Central Library; it houses the archives, manuscripts, and the Texas and Local History Department.[3] The Houston Metropolitan Research Center is located in the building.[4]
History
Designed by Ralph Adams Cram of Cram and Ferguson, Boston, the Ideson Building opened in 1926 as the Central Library for HPL; the building, exhibiting a Spanish Revival style, replaced a prior Carnegie building. In 1976 the Jesse H. Jones Building (as the building was named in 1989) opened, and the Central Library moved to the new building.[4]
The building received listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1] The Ideson building reopened in 1979.[4]
Lana Berkowitz of the Houston Chronicle stated that there are legends of the Ideson Building being haunted by the ghost of Jacob Frank Cramer, a library caretaker, and Petey, his dog.[2]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cite error: Invalid
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tag; name "nris" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Berkowitz, Lana. "Downtown Houston can be a real ghost town." Houston Chronicle. October 21, 2007. Retrieved on March 7, 2010.
- ↑ "Central Library Julia Ideson Building Texas Room and Archives." Houston Public Library. Retrieved on January 27, 2009.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Houston Public Library from the Handbook of Texas Online
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