​George Washington Carver
​Branch Library

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Marker No: 14088

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

National Register of Historic Places

Geographic: 30.269899, -97.724480

Location: ​1165 Angelina Street, Austin

Marker Text: ​In Feb. 1926 the Austin Public Library opened in a room over a downtown store. Within months the books were moved to this structure, built at Guadalupe and Ninth St, across from Wooldridge Park. In 1933, with completion of a permanent library facility, the original building was relocated here to meet the request of the black community for its own library. The frame structure was brick veneered and named for black educator George Washington Carver, directed by Hattie Henson 1933-43, this was the first branch in the Austin library system. (1977)