Starr House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Texas State Historic Site
Texas State Antiquities Landmark
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Starr Home at Christmas in 2009
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Location	407 W. Travis St., Marshall, Texas
Coordinates	32°32′31″N 94°22′13″W / 32.54194°N 94.37028°W / 32.54194; -94.37028
Area	less than one acre
Built	1870 (1870)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
Website	Starr Family Home State Historic Site
NRHP reference No.	79002972[1]
TSAL No.	8200000341
RTHL No.	10187
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 11, 1979
Designated TSHS	1986[2]
Designated TSAL	January 1, 1983
Designated RTHL	1964

Starr Family Home State Historic Site is a 3.1-acre (1.3 ha) historical site operated by the Texas Historical Commission in downtown Marshall, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1] The museum was made a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1986.^[3] On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission.

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.^[4]

The site portrays 150 years and four generations of one of the most influential political families in the periods of the Republic of Texas 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 Texas state park.^[4]

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.^[4]

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.^[4]