MEETINGS

The Friends of the Texas Room meets four times each year. The quarterly meetings are held on Monday evenings on the first floor of the Julia Ideson Building unless an alternative date and location are announced. The reception starts at 6:00 p.m., followed by the meeting at 7:00 p.m.

The Julia Ideson Building is located downtown at 500 McKinney Street. (See map below.) Free parking, validated at the meeting, is available in the underground parking garage under the Jones Library Building, which closes at 8:00 p.m. The underground parking is accessed from Lamar Avenue. Free parking is also available on the street after 6:00 p.m.

Monday, January 30, 2017
Dr. Dan M. Worrall
"Pleasant Bend: Upper Buffalo Bayou and the San Felipe Trail in the 19th Century."

Monday, April 24, 2017
Joe Holley, columnist at the Houston Chronicle

Monday, July 31, 2017
Randolph K. Tibbits
"Planned, Organized, and Established: Houston Artist Cooperatives in the 1930s - A Preview"

Monday, October 30, 2017
Carol Vance
"Fighting Crime in Houston During the 1960s and '70s"

Map to Julia Ideson Building - 500 McKinney Street

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