Historic Steamboat House at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville, Texas Texas Trivia- In
Historic Steamboat House at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville, Texas Texas Trivia- In 1858, Rufus W. Bailey built the odd-looking house with twin turrets at the front and galleries on each side. Since it somewhat resembled a riverboat of that era, it acquired the name Steamboat House. Tradition holds that Bailey offered the house as a wedding present to his son, Frank Bailey, but the young man and his bride refused to live there. In late 1862 Sam Houston, having been deposed as governor the previous year rented the Steamboat House and moved his family there from Cedar Point, his farm in Chambers County. Houston lived out the rest of his days in the Steamboat House in Huntsville, where he died on July 26, 1863, and where his funeral was held. Bailey, who died three months before Houston, had willed all his property to his son. Thus Frank Bailey became the owner of the house he had rejected five years earlier. Over the years the house saw multiple owners and by the mid-1930s the Steamboat House had become a “squatters place.” In early 1936 it was dismantled, and the original two-story body was moved to the Sam Houston Memorial Museum grounds where it still stands today and welcomes thousands of visitors each year. @SamHoustonMemorialMuseum . . . . . . . . . . #samhouston #samhoustonmemorialmuseum #huntsvilletx #walkercountytx #historichouse #architecture #design #home #architecturelovers #homedesign #architect #historichome #oldhome #circaoldhouses #oldhouses #dreamhouse #oldhouselove #oldhouse #oldhousecharm #easttexas #etx #nature #texas #texashistory #travel #tx #woods -- source link
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