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Cadence Wins $10.8M Museum, Library Contract

AUSTIN-Cadence McShane will be expanding the George Washington Carver Museum and Carver Branch Library in East Austin. The facility, set up up in 1933, was the state's first neighborhood museum of African-American history.

By Tim Green | Updated on August 05, 2002

AUSTIN-The City of Austin has awarded Cadence McShane a $10.8-million contract to expand the George Washington Carver Museum and Carver Branch Library. The company, based in Dallas, was the lowest of seven bidders.

The project is to significantly increase the size and prominence of the museum and library in Austin. Located at 1161 Angelina St. in East Austin, the museum was the first neighborhood museum in Texas devoted to African-American history and first branch library. Originally the main city public library at Ninth and Guadalupe streets, the building was moved to its current location in 1933.

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