Starr Family Home State Historic Site
Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox NRHP Starr Family Home State Historic Site is a Template:Convert historical site operated by the Texas Historical Commission in downtown Marshall, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.<ref name="nris" /> The museum was made a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1986.<ref name="Atlas">Template:Cite web</ref> On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission.
Description
The site encompasses several structures used by the Starr Family, most notably the main house or Starr Home, Maplecroft, and Rosemont Cottage. Rosemont Cottage is the only remaining portion of Rosemont, the antebellum plantation home that used to stand behind Maplecroft.<ref name="NRHP nom form">Template:Cite web</ref>
The site portrays 150 years and four generations of one of the most influential political families in the periods of the Republic of Texas and early statehood. The family donated the site to the State of Texas in 1976 and in 1982 the site was enlarged to include all of the Starr family residences. The Starrs continued to live at the site until 1985; the site was opened to the public in 1986 as a Texas state park.<ref name="NRHP nom form" />
James Frank Starr commissioned the construction of the main attraction of the park, Maplecroft. The 1871 Starr home is a two-story, frame, modified late Greek Revival structure with some Victorian styling. Craftsmen, such as shipwrights, and building materials were shipped from New Orleans to Marshall.<ref name="NRHP nom form" />
In 1985, the house and three acres encompassing seven historic buildings was left to the State of Texas upon the death of the last owner, Mrs. Clara Pope Willoughby.<ref name="NRHP nom form" />
See also
- Dr. James Harper Starr
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Harrison County, Texas
- List of Texas state historic sites
- Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Harrison County
References
External links
- Starr Family Home/Maplecroft from the Center for Regional Heritage Research, Stephen F. Austin State University
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- Buildings and structures in Marshall, Texas
- Texas State Historic Sites
- Historic house museums in Texas
- Museums in Harrison County, Texas
- National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Texas
- Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks
- Protected areas established in 1986
- 1986 establishments in Texas
- Houses completed in 1871