Woodland (Huntsville, Texas)

	Woodland
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
	Texas State Antiquities Landmark
	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
	Sam Houston House in 2012
	Sam Houston House Sam Houston House
	Interactive map showing the location of Woodland
Location	1402 19th St. on Sam Houston State University campus, Huntsville, Texas
Coordinates	30°42′53″N 95°33′10″W / 30.71472°N 95.55278°W
Area	15 acres (6.1 ha)
Built	1847
Architectural style	Dog-trot
NRHP reference No.	74002097
TSAL No.	8200000674
RTHL No.	8482
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 30, 1974
Designated NHL	May 30, 1974
Designated TSAL	January 1, 1981
Designated RTHL	1962

Woodland is a historic house on the grounds of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Built in stages beginning about 1847, it was the residence of Sam Houston from 1847 to 1859. The house is now part of Sam Houston Memorial Museum, and is a National Historic Landmark.^[2]

Description and history

Woodland is the centerpiece of the 15-acre (6.1 ha) museum property at the southeast corner of the Sam Houston State University Campus. It is a 1+1⁄2-story log structure, finished in wooden clapboards and covered by a gabled roof. It is a classic dogtrot house, with a central breezeway flanked by rectangular log chambers, with brick chimneys at the ends. A shed-roof porch extends in front of the breezeway, supported by square posts. The breezeway includes a winding staircase which provides access to loft spaces used as bedrooms.^[3]

The house was little more than a single-room log cabin when Sam Houston began enlarging it in 1847. In that year, he added the breezeway and second log structure. Later alterations improved the upper level, including construction of the staircase, and apparently reversing the front and back of the house. Houston's family occupied the house until 1859, the period during which he served as a United States senator, and as Governor of Texas. Houston's signature achievements, the independence of Texas and its subsequent annexation to the United States, happened before he took up residence here.^[3]

The house is now accompanied by a reconstruction kitchen outbuilding, as well as the restored cabin that he used as a law office.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Staff (June 2011). "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State (Texas)" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "NHL nomination for Woodlands". National Park Service. Retrieved January 11, 2018.

External links

Sam Houston Memorial Museum

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NHLlist-2] Staff (June 2011). "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State (Texas)" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved March 15, 2018.

[nhl-3] "NHL nomination for Woodlands". National Park Service. Retrieved January 11, 2018.

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