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Houston Public Library is haunted: The Julia Ideson Building

On first glance you probably wouldn’t think that the Julia Ideson Building is haunted. After all, the Spanish Renaissance style architecture and beautiful surrounding courtyards are anything but spooky on the surface.

Yet lurking inside is the spirit of a former staff member from the building’s earlier days.

The Julia Ideson Building’s resident ghost, Jacob Frank Cramer, worked for many years as a night watchman.

He would often play his violin in the evenings from the top floor of what is now the Tudor gallery before retiring to his on-site basement apartment.

On a November morning in 1936, librarians found him dead. But Cramer has never really left the building, returning in spirit when the mood strikes him to play his melodies once more.
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