Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site

Samuel Bell Maxey and his wife, Marilda, moved into their fashionable new home on the south side of Paris, Texas in 1868. Built in the High Victorian Italianate style, the frame house, plus book house and stable, were a progressive addition to the citys architecture and a proper home for the ex-Confederate general and later United States Senator. Maxey moved to Paris with his family in 1857. Construction of the house began in 1867 and it was remodeled in 1911. Members of the Maxey family lived in the house until 1966.