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The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center is a museum and cultural center in east Austin, Texas, housed in the former George Washington Carver branch of the Austin Public Library. Named in honor of George Washington Carver, the facility has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005.
George Washington Carver (c. 1864 [1] – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. [2]
In 1928, Austin voters approved $150,000 in bonds for a permanent building, and the temporary building was moved to Angelina Street, resurfaced with brick, and opened as the library's first branch, the George Washington Carver Branch. The building is now part of the George Washington Carver Museum, adjacent to the current Carver Branch. [4]
The George Washington Carver Museum in Tuskegee, Alabama, founded in 1941 by George Washington Carver; George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center in Austin, Texas; George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, housed in the former Carver High School (formerly Phoenix Union Colored High School) in Phoenix, Arizona
Woodlawn, also known as the Pease Mansion as well as Governor Shivers’ Mansion, is a pre-Civil War mansion located at 30.2871° -97.7581° in Austin, Texas.The Greek Revival style house was owned by two Texas governors.
The French Legation Museum, the Texas Music Museum, and the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center are among the neighborhood's cultural amenities. [6] The nonprofit organization Six Square was founded in 2013 to preserve the Black cultural heritage of Central East Austin, including many of the neighborhood's historical buildings. [3]
Category: Libraries in Austin, Texas. 3 languages. ... George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center; H. H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports;
It is located south of the Old West Austin Historic District and southeast of the Clarksville Historic District. [2] The district comprises more than twenty-five subdivisions platted between 1871 and 1948, out of the George W. Spear League and Division Z of the government lands west of the original city center.