Editing Houston Public Library (section)

===Julia Ideson Library===
The library board selected a lot once occupied by [[Thomas M. Bagby]], a co-founder of the 1848 Houston Lyceum. They commissioned Cram and Ferguson as design architects, in consultation with [[William Ward Watkin]] and Louis A. Glover. The building was completed in two years and at a cost of $500,000. The Spanish Renaissance design draws from regional history, and includes carvings of explorers and missionaries of Texas. The second floor hall lay under a rotunda, fronted by an interior oaken gate with carved columns and entablatures. The new building opened with a collection of more than thirty thousand volumes.<ref>Chapman (2004), pp. 21{{endash}}25.</ref> The building constructed as Houston's Central Library in 1926 was later named the [[Julia Ideson Building]] in her honor.<ref name=":0" />