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The city changed the name from Carnegie Library to Houston Public Library in 1921. By this time, they had outgrown their space and relocated several staff members to the Harris County Courthouse. A few years later, the library sold its property to raise money for a larger facility. [7]
Heights Neighborhood Library is a public library facility in the Houston Heights area of Houston, Texas. It is a part of Houston Public Library (HPL) and is located at 1302 Heights Boulevard, [2] in Heights block 170. [3] It has a pink Stucco Italian Renaissance façade and arches in its doors and windows.
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.
(This article is available from NewsBank, accessible with a Houston Public Library card.) Flournoy (1985-06-10). "Houston Project: Indochinese Makeup of Complex May Make Its Destruction Easier". The Dallas Morning News. "Once-Proud Project Faces Demolition: Razing Appears a Certainty for Low-Rent Housing". Houston Chronicle. 1988-02-04.
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.
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The Houston Public Library is a public library in Houston, Minnesota. It is a member of Southeastern Libraries Cooperating, the SE Minnesota library region. [ 1 ]
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