Starr Family Home State Historic Site is a historical site operated by the

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in downtown

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. It was listed on the

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in 1979. The museum was made a

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in 1986. On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from the

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to the

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. The site portrays 150 years and four generations of one of the most influential political families in the periods of the

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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

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. 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. 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.

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Starr Family Home/Maplecroft
from the Center for Regional Heritage Research, Stephen F. Austin State University * 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 {{Texas-protected-area-stub

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