History
HSPVA was established in 1971 on the site previously occupied by Congregation Beth Israel at the corner of Austin and Holman Streets. The school moved to 4001 Stanford Street, the site of the former Montrose Elementary School, in 1981.
In the 1990s there was a proposal to move HSPVA to the Bob R. Casey Federal Building in Downtown Houston.
Plans existed for a new HSPVA building to be located near the Gregory-Lincoln Education Center in Houston's Freedmen's Town Historical District in the Fourth Ward. The new building would have included a 2000+ seat state-of-the-art theater, updated facilities and possibly a recording studio. Construction was temporarily delayed due to the discovery of a possible American Civil War-era cemetery. In June 2007, the project page for the building displayed "CANCELLED". The site that was going to have the new HSPVA will instead have the new Carnegie Vanguard High School.
A block in Downtown Houston which currently holds a parking lot is a proposed new location for HSPVA. It formerly housed Sam Houston High School; at a later point the building housed the HISD headquarters.
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