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Palm Center entrance Alice McKean Young Neighborhood Library. The Palm Center Business and Technology Center, [1] commonly known as Palm Center, is a municipally-owned services complex in southeast Houston, Texas. [2] It is 6 miles (9.7 km) from NRG Stadium and is in proximity to the Third Ward area. [3]
1907 Sanborn map showing the location of the Carnegie Library and Houston Lyceum. Julia Ideson Building in Downtown. The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 1854. [2] [3] The lyceum was preceded by a debating society, a special-interest mechanics' lyceum, and a circulating library ...
The area is served by the Houston Public Library. M. E. Walter Neighborhood Library, a full service branch, is located at 7660 Clarewood, [73] in Sharpstown Section 4. [74] HPL Express Southwest is located within the Southwest Multi-Service Center at 6400 High Star in the Southwest Management District, east of the Sharpstown subdivisions. [75]
Houston Public Library (4 P) Pages in category "Libraries in Houston" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Firewheel Town Center is a 998,347-square-foot (92,749.5 m 2) open-air regional shopping mall in Garland, Texas. The mall is located on the northeast corner of President George Bush Turnpike and State Highway 78. The mall features Dillard's, Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Barnes & Noble, in addition to an AMC Theatres. The mall opened on ...
Harris County Public Library (HCPL) is a public library system serving Harris County, Texas, United States. Since its inception in 1921, HCPL has grown from a system of small book stations in homes, stores and post offices to 26 branch libraries serving a population of over 1.3 million users in unincorporated areas countywide.
In 1921 the city of Houston disbanded the library board and made the library a branch of the Houston Public Library system. [6] Charles Norton Love, an African American civil rights activist and publisher of the Texas Freeman helped advocate for construction and funding of the library. Houston's public library system was desegregated in 1953.
The City Hall and Market House, located on Travis Street at Prairie Avenue, was shared by the Houston city government and the city market.(1904) Houston City Hall and Market (postcard, circa 1912-1924) From 1841 to 1939, Houston's municipal government was headquartered at Old Market Square. It was destroyed by fire in the 1870s, and also in ...