National Register Listing

Lamar-Calder House

915 Front St., Richmond, TX

The Lamar-Calder House is the only remaining historical structure on the plantation estate of Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar, the third President of the Republic of Texas.

The Lamar-Calder House in Richmond, Fort Bend County, Texas is the only remaining historical structure on the plantation estate of Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar, the third President of the Republic of Texas. Built in 1860 just after Lamar's death by his widow, Henrietta Maffitt, the house replaced an earlier house, which is no longer extant. In 1872, Lamar's daughter, Loretto, married S.D. Calder and the couple continued to live in the house with her mother. The couple had four children at the house before Mr. Calder's death in 1883. The house a good local example of a mid IQ"* century vernacular home with Greek Revival influences and is nominated for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria C in the area of Architecture.

Local significance of the building:
Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.