Built by shipwrights for James Frank Starr, 1870-71, of select lumber, with joints mortised. On property acquired by Dr. James Harper Starr, Secretary of the Treasury in the Republic of Texas (1839-40) and Postmaster-General for the Confederacy's Trans-Mississippi Department. Site of the Dr. Starr home at the time of his death in 1890. Now owned by Mrs. Ruth Starr Blake, daughter of J. F. Starr.
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