Now Open: Lora Jean Kilroy Visitor and Education Center at Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
By Laurette M. Veres
Bayou Bend, a long-standing museum featuring American paintings and decorative art, completes significant interior renovations and debuts a new visitors center.
Photo Credit Robb Williamson
The new visitors center includes space for special programming and a publicly accessible research library. The programming provides a major new resource for broadening the understanding of American’s heritage, art, culture, and history
Notable: LEED Certification
The building has receive LEED Silver Certification for its incorporation of environmentally friendly design:
- Contractor recycled nearly 4,500 cubic yards of waste
- Building’s materials contain 11 percent recycled content, from steel products to carpet to window
6003 Memorial Drive (@ corner of Westcott St.)
