Tag: McFaddin Home

The McFaddin’s home was one of a number of grand residences built in Beaumont, Texas, in the distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style by local architect, Henry Conrad Mauer, during the early twentieth century. When W. P. H. and Ida Caldwell McFaddin moved their young family, two sons and one daughter, into their house in 1907, Beaumont was still enjoying the economic effects of the discovery of oil at nearby Spindletop in 1901. Of course, McFaddin owned [...] Read more