Historic Row houses to be preserved

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from Ellen Cohen's email

 

Historic Row Houses to be Preserved

Council Member Cohen and her colleagues voted to preserve three row houses adjacent to the African American Library at the Gregory School in District C's historic Freedmens' Town. The Library at the Gregory School is the successor of the original Gregory Institute, which was opened in 1872 as Houston's first primary school for freed slaves. One of the houses will be restored to the era when the Gregory Institute was open, to showcase the living conditions of students during that era. The other two row houses will be utilized as studio space for artists and as meeting space for the Freedmens' Town community.