Julia Ideson Building

{{Short description|Historic building in Houston, Texas, U.S.}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Julia Ideson Building

| image = HPLIdesonBuilding0.JPG

| caption = Julia Ideson Building

| location = 500 McKinney Street
Houston, Texas

| coordinates = {{coord|29|45|32|N|95|22|9|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = USA Texas Houston downtown#Texas#USA

| built = 1926

| architect = Ralph Adams Cram

| architecture = Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Spanish Renaissance

| added = November 23, 1977

| area = {{convert|1.5|acre}}

| refnum = 77001447

| designated_other1 = RTHL

| designated_other1_date = 2003

| designated_other1_number = [http://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5507013888 13888]

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| designated_other2 = TSAL

| designated_other2_date = 5/28/1981

| designated_other2_number = [http://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/8200000323 323]

| designated_other2_num_position = bottom

}}

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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.Chapman, Betty Trapp. "Houston Women: Invisible Threads in the Tapestry". Virginia Beach: Donning Publishing Company, 2000, p. 109.

The Spanish Renaissance-style buildingBerkowitz, Lana. "[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/5226583.html Downtown Houston can be a real ghost town]." Houston Chronicle. October 21, 2007. Retrieved on March 7, 2010. is part of the Central Library, and houses its archives, manuscripts, and Texas and Local History departments."[http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/branches/jib_home.html Central Library Julia Ideson Building Texas Room and Archives] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211143149/http://hpl.lib.tx.us/branches/jib_home.html |date=2009-02-11 }}." Houston Public Library. Retrieved on January 27, 2009. It is also the site of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.{{Handbook of Texas|id=lch02|name=Houston Public Library}}

From 1926 to 1976 it was Houston's sole main library building.{{cite web|author=Chapman, Betty Trapp|url=https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/walking-in-the-footsteps-of-houst-women-historic-tour-of-down.pdf|title=Walking in the Footsteps of Houston Women: A Historic Tour of Downtown Houston|work=The Houston Review|volume=1|issue=1|pages=59-62}} - Cited: p. 59 (PDF p. 1/4)