Starr Family Home [replaced Maplecroft]
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N 32° 32.508 W 094° 22.259
15S E 371265 N 3601321
Texas Historical Marker for Maplecroft, also known as the Starr Family Home. [Sometime between March 2014 and July 5, 2016, this marker was replaced.]
Waymark Code: WMK8FQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/28/2014
Views: 10
Tours of this house are from Tuesday through Saturday (10 AM to 4 PM) and Sunday 12 to 4 PM. Admission rates are:
Adult $4
Youth (6 to 18) $3
Children (5 and under) Free
Text for original "Maplecroft" marker:
"Built by shipwrights for James Frank Starr, 1870-71, of select lumber, with joints mortised. On property acquired by Dr. James Harper Starr, Secretary of the Treasury in the Republic of Texas (1839-40) and Postmaster-General for the Confederacy's Trans-Mississippi Department. Site of the Dr. Starr home at the time of his death in 1890. Now owned by Mrs. Ruth Starr Blake, daughter of J. F. Starr."
Marker Number: 10187
Marker Text:
Dr. James Harper Starr (1809-1890) was a government official in the Republic of Texas and the Confederacy and a leading physician and businessman. In 1870, Dr. Starr and his son, James Franklin Starr (1844-1902), relocated their land and banking agency from Nacogdoches to Marshall, and bough this land for their homes. Frank Starr and his wife, Clara (Clapp) (1849-1925), built "Maplecroft", originally a two-story center passage Greek Revival style home which received later additions. The house remained in the family until 1976, when it was deeded to the State of Texas for public benefit.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1964
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