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Texas portal; Architecture portal; The Julia Ideson Building is a Houston Public Library facility in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.It is named for Julia Bedford Ideson, who served as the system's first head librarian for 40 years.
AT&T Reading Works was the No. 2 employer in Berks County in 1993, [12] but that was soon to end. In February 1994, AT&T Reading Works announced that it would be cutting 850 jobs over a 3-year period. [13] In 1994 the Reading Works' work force was reduced from 2,929 to 2,700 with most of the cuts in the Lightwave unit.
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 ...
In 1974 the Houston Heights Association (HHA) classified the library as a beautification project. [7] From 1977 to 1980, [ 9 ] an expansion project added a square footage higher than the original size, including 3,000 square feet (280 m 2 ) to the north end, since HPL deemed the existing amount of space held by the library insufficient. [ 7 ]
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
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