{"id":98388,"date":"2025-12-23T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:13:06","slug":"houston-city-council-oks-750k-to-continue-restoration-of-historic-fourth-ward-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98388\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston City Council OKs $750K to continue restoration of historic Fourth Ward library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHouston City Council approved an additional $750,000 for the roughly $5.2 million restoration of The African American Library at the Gregory School\u2014located at 1300 Victor St. in Houston&#8217;s Fourth Ward\u2014during its regular <a href=\"https:\/\/houstontx.new.swagit.com\/videos\/364821\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 17 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two-minute impact<\/p>\n<p>City Council approved the added $750,000 for the city\u2019s contract with builder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anslowbryant.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anslow Bryant Construction<\/a>, which was selected for the library restoration project in April 2023, according to meeting documents.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/heights-river-oaks-montrose\/city-county\/2023\/04\/26\/houston-city-council-approves-funding-for-restoration-of-fourth-ward-library-damaged-by-hurricane-harvey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The African American Library<\/a> was damaged by Hurricane Harvey as wind and rain penetrated the building&#8217;s exterior, as previously reported by Community Impact. The city\u2019s project includes:<\/p>\n<p>Repairing the building\u2019s roofing and windowsUpgrading the building&#8217;s heating, ventilation and air conditioning systemRestoring some interior and exterior elementsDid you know?<\/p>\n<p>The building is located in the Freedmen&#8217;s Town Historic District and is on the National Register of Historic Places, as previously reported. The Gregory School earned a Texas Historical Marker on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston City Council approved an additional $750,000 for the roughly $5.2 million restoration of The African American Library&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[45421,45420,45419,56,45423,45422,4626,58,57,45418],"class_list":["post-98388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-african-american-library-restoration","tag-anslow-bryant-construction","tag-fourth-ward","tag-houston","tag-houston-african-american-library","tag-houston-african-american-library-restoration-project","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-the-african-american-library-at-the-gregory-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}