Historic Place

Draughn-Moore House

Texarkana · Bowie County · Dedicated 1976 · THC Atlas #2076002007

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About this site

Draughn-Moore House is a historic place in Texarkana, Bowie County, dedicated in 1976. It is one of 6 historic places documented in Bowie County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 168 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 33.4241, -94.0442 near Texarkana. The nearest cataloged historic site is Ace of Clubs House (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include St. James Episcopal Church, Old Rialto Building, and World War I Memorial.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2076002007. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Draughon-Moore House in Texarkana, better known as the Ace of Clubs House, is an 1885 Italianate Victorian residence laid out in the shape of a playing-card club, with three octagonal wings and a rectangular wing meeting at a central octagonal stair hall, giving the house 22 sides. Local legend holds that Confederate veteran and lumberman James Draughon built it with $10,000 won in a poker game on an ace of clubs. Widow Olivia Moore left the house to the Texarkana Museum System in 1985, and it opened as a museum in 1988; it is a National Register property and Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org loc.gov

📍 33.4241, -94.0442 · Texarkana, Bowie County

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