The Sam Bell Maxey House is a historic house in

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. Samuel Bell Maxey, a prominent local attorney and later two-term U.S. senator, built the large two-story house after serving as a major general in the Confederate Army. It is built in the High Victorian

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style. From 1868 to 1966, the house was the home of

Samuel B. Maxey Samuel Bell Maxey (March 30, 1825August 16, 1895) was an American soldier, lawyer, and politician from Paris, Texas. He was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later represented Texas in the U.S. ...

and his family. It was added to the

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on March 18, 1971. The house was designated a

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in 1962. Restoration was completed September 1, 1980, and it was opened to the public on a tour basis. On January 1, 2008, the house was transferred from the

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to the

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and is now operated at the Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site.

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