Steamboat House is located at Sam Houston State University, in the city of Huntsville, county of Walker, in the U.S. state of Texas. Dr. Rufus W. Bailey built the house in 1858 as a wedding gift for his son, but the couple refused to live in it because of its unusual architecture, which caused the locals to give it the nickname "steamboat". It is the house where Sam Houston died July 26, 1863. Houston's funeral was held in the upstairs parlor. The house is part of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum complex.
Bailey died shortly before Houston, and the house was inherited by his son Frank. The house was sold to A. C. McKeen, who sold it to Pleasant Kittrell in 1866. Kittrell died in 1867 as the result of the same yellow fever epidemic that claimed the life of Margaret Lea Houston. The house had numerous owners, until it was purchased in 1933 by businessman J. E. Josey, who deeded it to the Texas Historical Commission. The house was moved to the grounds of the university in 1936. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964.
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Steamboat House is located at Sam Houston State University, in the city of Huntsville, county of Walker, in the U.S. state of Texas. Dr. Dr. Rufus W. Bailey built the house in 1858 as a wedding gift for his son, but the couple refused to live in it because of its unusual architecture, which caused the locals to give it the nickname "steamboat".
Steamboat House located on the Sam Houston Memorial Museum grounds Source: Sam Houston State University History Department. In 1855, Dr. Rufus W. Bailey, a Dartmouth educated minister and attorney, moved to Huntsville, Texas, to serve as a language professor at Austin College.
Sam Houston's Steamboat House, Huntsville, Texas. Built in 1858 by Dr. Rufus Bailey, 1858-62 president of Austin College, as a wedding gift for son. Unusual house caused such joking, however, the couple refused to live in it. In 1862, after Sam Houston left governorship of Texas, he rented Steamboat House, and here he died in 1863.
Jul 3, 2007 · Steamboat House original location (approx. 0.2 miles away); Honoring Unknown Graves (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Huntsville.
Built in 1858 by Dr. Rufus Bailey, 1858-62 president of Austin College, as a wedding gift for son. (A historical marker located in Huntsville in Walker County, Texas.)
Jul 23, 2021 · Monday will be the first opportunity visitors have to enter the Steamboat House, including the room where Houston died from pneumonia, since 2013. They will also be able to explore two other downstairs rooms decorated with period furnishings and the upstairs parlor used for Houston’s funeral.
Nov 1, 1995 · Since 1937 the Steamboat House has remained one of the most popular of the historical buildings in the fifteen-acre Sam Houston Memorial Museum complex. It is estimated that 40,000 people, including many schoolchildren, visit it each year.
The Houstons lived in the Steamboat House after they returned to Huntsville in 1862. This is where Sam spoke his last words "Texas, Texas Margaret." The grounds features the Guerrant Cabin, Bear Bend Cabin, and the Duck Pond. Additionally, learn what's growing in …
The Steamboat House is a historically significant structure located on the Sam Houston Museum grounds.
Sam Houston's Steamboat House ca. 1925 at its original location in Huntsville, Texas. Steamboat House on the grounds of the Sam Houston Museum Complex. Sam Houston died in the house in 1863. Nancy Elizabeth Houston (Nannie) was born in 1846 at Raven Hill near Huntsville.
