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Sam Bell Maxey House is a state historic site in Texas, Texas. It is one of 24 state historic sites documented in Texas in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 24 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 33.6539, -95.5552. The nearest cataloged historic site is Sam Rayburn House (state historic site), about 38 miles away. Others within a short drive include Eisenhower Birthplace, Starr Family Home, and Starr Family Home.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #P109. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Sam Bell Maxey House is a historic two-story house in Paris, Lamar County, Texas, built in 1867 by Samuel Bell Maxey, a prominent local attorney who served as a major general in the Confederate Army and later two terms as a U.S. senator. Built in the High Victorian Italianate style, it was home to Maxey and his family from 1868 to 1966. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 18, 1971, and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1962. On January 1, 2008, the house was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission and is now operated as the Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site.
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