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font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px;\">The Brazoria Heritage Foundation was founded in 2004 to save the \u201cOld School\u201d in downtown Brazoria from the wrecking ball when the school district moved the students to a new location. \u00a0<\/span><\/h3><p>The buildings have been renovated and put to good use for and by the citizens of the area.\u00a0 The whole complex is commonly know as the Brazoria Civic Center and houses the Brazoria Community Museum, Brazoria Chamber of Commerce, Brazos Valley Railroad Society, Brazoria Lions Club, Brazoria County Cavalry, with rentals by Brazoria County for WIC and Vaccination Clinic, White Tiger Taekwando, Dance Academy of Worship, Masters Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA), and other groups.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\">Several buildings are available for rentals for various venues:<\/span><\/p><p>The Lloyd E. Thomas Gymnasium is available for large events such as weddings and banquets.\u00a0 Seating and tables included for 300 people.<\/p><p>The Conference Center which is a building for meetings, showers, and other similar events,\u00a0 seats up to 100 people and includes a full kitchen area.<\/p><p>The Cafeteria is available for other rentals and has seating for up to 80 people.<\/p><p>The Theater in the 1933 Building is available for conferences, entertainment, memorials, etc.\u00a0 It seats 465 people and has a large video screen with video projector and lighting and sound system.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\">For more information on rentals&#8230;<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\">Contact \u00a0Bruce Crecy 979-235-9928, or David Jordan 979-824-0455<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cb34eff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cb34eff\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4939abe\" data-id=\"4939abe\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b97956f elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"b97956f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=nsYrquAUDXc&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazoria Heritage Foundation Civic Center About The Civic Center The Brazoria Heritage Foundation was founded in 2004 to save the \u201cOld School\u201d in downtown Brazoria from the wrecking ball when the school district moved the students to a new location.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The History of the Civic Center The Brazoria Heritage Foundation was founded in 2004 to save the \u201cOld School\u201d in downtown Brazoria from the wrecking ball when the school district moved the students to a new location. \u00a0 The buildings have been renovated and put to good use for and by the citizens of the area.\u00a0 The whole complex <a href=\"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/about-the-civic-center\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-959","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brazoriahf.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}