{"id":466580,"date":"2025-12-23T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466580\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:26:13","slug":"houston-city-council-oks-750k-to-continue-restoration-of-historic-fourth-ward-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466580\/","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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec. 17 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two-minute impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>City Council approved the added $750,000 for the city\u2019s contract with builder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anslowbryant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<ul>\n<li>Repairing the building\u2019s roofing and windows<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading the building&#8217;s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system<\/li>\n<li>Restoring some interior and exterior elements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><\/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":3,"featured_media":466581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[212261,212260,52722,4345,212263,212262,51079,358,212259,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-466580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-african-american-library-restoration","9":"tag-anslow-bryant-construction","10":"tag-fourth-ward","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-african-american-library","13":"tag-houston-african-american-library-restoration-project","14":"tag-houston-city-council","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-the-african-american-library-at-the-gregory-school","17":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115768877767139462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}