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{{Infobox NRHP
  | name = Starr House
  | nrhp_type =
 | designated_other1_name = Texas State Historic Site
 | designated_other1_abbr = TSHS
 | designated_other1_color = #CDE5B2
 | designated_other1_link = List of Texas State Historic Sites
 | designated_other1_date = 1986<ref name="THC Starr hist">{{cite web|title=Starr Family Home History|url=http://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/starr-family-home-state-historic-site|publisher=[[Texas Historical Commission]]|access-date=July 1, 2018}}</ref>
 | designated_other2 = TSAL
 | designated_other2_date = January 1, 1983
 | designated_other2_number = [https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/8200000341 8200000341]
 | designated_other2_num_position = bottom
 | designated_other3 = RTHL
 | designated_other3_date = 1964 
 | designated_other3_number = [https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5203010187 10187]
 | designated_other3_num_position = bottom
  | image = Starr Home at Christmas, Marshall, TX IMG 2350.JPG
  | caption = Starr Home at Christmas in 2009
  | location = 407 W. Travis St.,<br />[[Marshall, Texas]]
  | coordinates = {{coord|32|32|31|N|94|22|13|W|display=inline,title}}
  | locmapin = Texas#USA
  | map_label = Starr House
  | locmap_relief = yes
  | area = less than one acre
  | built = {{Start date|1870}}
  | architect =
  | architecture = [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]]
  | website = {{Official website|url=http://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/starr-family-home-state-historic-site|name=Starr Family Home State Historic Site}}
  | added = December 11, 1979
  | refnum = 79002972<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref>
}}
'''Starr Family Home State Historic Site''' is a {{convert|3.1|acre|adj=on}} 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">{{cite web|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/ |title= Search for Harrison County: Starr — Museum — Atlas Number 4200000477 |website=Texas Historic Sites Atlas |access-date=May 3, 2017}}</ref> On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from the [[Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]] to the [[Texas Historical Commission]].

==Description==
[[Image:Maplecroft.jpg|thumb|left|Maplecroft is located at the corner of Travis and Grove streets in [[Marshall, Texas|Marshall]], [[Texas]].]]
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">{{cite web|last1=Parshall|first1=Ruth|title=Starr House NRHP nomination form|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/NR/pdfs/79002972/79002972.pdf|website=Texas Historical Commission|publisher=National Park Service|date=December 11, 1979|access-date=April 21, 2017}}</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==
{{Portal|National Register of Historic Places|Texas}}
*Dr. [[James Harper Starr]]
*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Harrison County, Texas]]
*[[List of Texas state historic sites]]
*[[List of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (Grayson-Hudspeth)#Harrison County|Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Harrison County]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/4984.asp Starr Family Home/Maplecroft] from the Center for Regional Heritage Research, [[Stephen F. Austin State University]]
*{{Commons category-inline|Starr Family Home State Historic Site}}

{{Protected areas of Texas}}
{{National Register of Historic Places in Texas}}

[[Category:Buildings and structures in Marshall, Texas]]
[[Category:Texas State Historic Sites]]
[[Category:Historic house museums in Texas]]
[[Category:Museums in Harrison County, Texas]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Texas]]
[[Category:Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1986]]
[[Category:1986 establishments in Texas]]
[[Category:Houses completed in 1871]]

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