Architectural Drawings Collection

A proposed plan for the new Aldine Branch Library from the 1970s. 

View six floor plans and site plans from the 1990s.

View eight floor plans and site plans from the 1980s through the 2020s. 

Explore the floor plan and two artistic renderings of the original Cypress Creek building from the 1970s.  The branch was renamed after former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a new building opened in 2002.

Two artistic renderings from the 1970s of the building designed by Haywood Jordan and McCowan, Inc. can be found in Volume 5 of the Freeman Memorial Library Scrapbook (covering 1971-1975). This was the branch's second building, a multi-use space for several county departments. The library moved out of this building in 2004 into a new building across the parking lot.

A 2009 rendering of the new building designed to replace the one lost to Hurricane Ike.

A floor plan from 1987.

Four floor plans, some undated (likely 1980s and 1990s), and some from the 2004 remodel.

Floor plan from 1984.

An elevation and simple floor plan, both undated (likely from the 1990s).

Six elevations and floor plans from the 1980s, as well as a furniture sample book from 1983 that features examples of the furniture in the branch when it first opened.

Floor plan and elevation from the 2000s of the new building that opened in 2010. 

Eight floor plans from the early 2000s of the new library built in partnership with Lone Star College.

A floor plan for the temporary facility that housed the Tomball Library from 2001 to 2005, and six renderings, floor plans, and elevations from 2003 for the new building designed in partnership with Lone Star College.

A furniture plan from 1988 for the branch that opened in 1993. 

Three plans from 1983, including exterior elevations and a floor plan.  

Undated elevations of the new building that opened in 2001.

A floor plan from 1992.

A furniture plan from 1989 for the new building that opened in 1991.

Three flour plans from the 1971 community campaign for a new building.

Two floor plans and a design for the circulation desk from the 1960s. 

Fourteen plans from the 1960s for the new Woodforest branch library, which opened in 1969.