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HABS TEX,239-INDEP,8- (sheet 8 of 12) - Mrs. Sam Houston House, Farm Road 390, Independence, Washington County, TX
Title
HABS TEX,239-INDEP,8- (sheet 8 of 12) - Mrs. Sam Houston House, Farm Road 390, Independence, Washington County, TX
Description
Elliot, Pat; Houston, Sam; Texas AandM University, College of Architecture, sponsor; Woodcock, David G, faculty sponsor; Al-Ratrout, Samer, field team; Blanchard, Kathlyn, field team; Brown, Laura, field team; Oren, Ulker, field team; Young, Kelly, transmitter
Depicted place Texas; Washington County; Independence
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS TEX,239-INDEP,8- (sheet 8 of 12)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place
  • Significance: The house faces the Spanish La Bahia Road on a corner lot in the town platted in 1835. With the success of cotton plantations, and the foundation of Baylor University in 1845, Independence became one of the wealthiest communities in Texas. ... Sam Houseton, the first President of the Republic of Texas, has a farm at Cedar Point, near Galveston, and homes in Huntsville and Independence. After his death in 1863 his widow, Margaret Lea, reportedly moved to this house with seven of her eight children. A deed of purchase from James L. Farquhar is dated February 1866. Mrs. Houston died of yellow fever in December 1867. Her daughter, Maggie, lived in the house until 1898, when it was sold to the Williams family, who remained until 1983.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N970
  • Survey number: HABS TX-264
  • Building/structure dates: after 1830 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0283.sheet.00008a
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