Kingwood Branch Library

Kingwood Branch was built in 1983 The building was dedicated on August 21, 1983, on the heels of Hurricane Alicia. The library is 12,000 sq. ft in size. The library was built as a result of a grassroots campaign by residents of the area who saw the need for a library. They organized as FOLK - Friends of the Library Kingwood - in November 1978 and began immediately petitioning the Harris County for a library. Plans were put into place to begin fundraising and they have not stopped yet.

The library was the only "game in town" in Kingwood for many years. As a result, during these early years, many local businesses became involved in the library's growth by holding fundraising events of their own; the cable company donated $5.00 per customer each year during their May drive for new customers, the music school held "Galas" and donated a percentage to the library. It was a heady time for the library.

FOLK (Friends of the Library Kingwood) has been an active group since before the library opened. The Texas State Library selected the Kingwood Friends' 1986 Buy-a-Book Campaign as the State Library Project of the Year. In addition to raising funds through the annual Buy-A-Book campaign and quarterly Used Book Sales, the Friends donate their time to such special projects as the Summer Reading Programs for the children, Patron Count Week and are generally on call to help the library in any way they can.

The Kingwood Garden club has taken on the Kingwood Library as a special project and as a result the flowerbed in the front of the library is spectacular in all seasons. In 1999 they contacted Steve LeGrande, a local resident who specializes in amazing topiaries, to create a topiary dragon and bookworm from the shrubbery in the front of the library. A contest was held by the library to name the dragon and the bookworm; Sir Clackentoes, the dragon, and Rupert, the bookworm, were born. They continue to delight our patrons, young and old.