Julia Ideson Building

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caption = Julia Ideson Building
location = 500 McKinney Street
Houston, Texas
United States
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Julia Ideson Building is a Houston Public Library facility in Houston, Texas, United States.

The building is part of the Central Library; it houses the archives, manuscripts, and the Texas and Local History Department. [" [http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/branches/jib_home.html Central Library Julia Ideson Building Texas Room and Archives] ." "Houston Public Library".] The Houston Metropolitan Research Center is located in the building.Handbook of Texas|id=HH/lch2|name=Houston Public Library]

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.

The building received listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [http://www.nr.nps.gov/nrloc1.htm National Register Information System] , National Register of Historic Places, "National Park Service".] The Ideson building reopened in 1979.

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