Geraldine D. Humphreys Cultural Center

Geraldine D. Humphreys Cultural Center

Geraldine D. Humphreys Cultural Center Photograph by Gerald Moorhead
1970, William R. Jenkins. 1710 Sam Houston Ave.

Liberty's multipurpose cultural center contains the municipal library, a history gallery, and the 150-seat Humphreys-Burson Theater. To meet budget limitations, Jenkins exposed the building's reinforced-concrete structural frame and steel space-frame roof structure, and faced the walls with concrete block. Towers containing service and mechanical spaces frame the street and garden entrances to the low-ceilinged lobby. Sloped skylights, visible from Sam Houston Avenue, bring natural light into the double-height library. The cultural center was constructed by the Humphreys Foundation of Liberty, which was endowed by Geraldine Davis Humphreys, a major contributor to the construction of Frank Lloyd Wright's Dallas Theater Center.

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