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The Oaks Historic District, is a collection of historic homes and businesses in Beaumont, Texas. The area is roughly bound by I-10 to the north and Smart St. to the south and from 11th St. on the west to 1st St. to the east. [1] Many of the historic homes are restored and still used as residences today. The district is just west of downtown. [2]
Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.It is the seat of government of Jefferson County, [5] within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about 85 miles (137 km) east of Houston (city center to city center).
Because the house was considered to be out in the country at the time of its construction, Mrs. Ogden preferred to retain her town home and named her new country estate "Idle Hours". The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [2] The home was owned by several prominent Beaumont families.
The McFaddin–Ward House is a historic home in Beaumont, Texas, United States built in 1905 1906 in the Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival style. The 12,800-square-foot (1,190 m 2) house and furnishings reflect the lifestyle of the prominent family who lived in the house for seventy-five years.
1936 – Beauxart Gardens housing for urban poor created near Beaumont (approximate date). 1943 – June: Beaumont race riot of 1943. [13] 1943–1944 – Beaumont served as a stand-in for Paris, France for Royal Air Force airmen cadets flying on frequent training missions from their base in Terrell, Texas. [14] 1950 – Population: 94,014. [6]
A second real estate development company purchased the town in 1887 and renamed the town Beaumont, which was incorporated on November 18, 1912. By 1927, the small city had a population of 857 with five churches, a public library , a bank, a high school, two local newspapers, several lumber yards, commercial packing houses, and a dehydrating plant.
The château de Beaumont in the Albums de Croÿ A 1545 map by Jacob van Deventer depicting Beaumont with the castle in the left corner below Charles III de Croÿ A 1608 depiction of the Château de Beaumont on a 19th-century post card The ruined Salamander tower The castle's location is now a park, although some ramparts remain
Melina Abdullah (PhD) – professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles [1]; Anna Jean Ayres (B.A. 1945, M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) – occupational therapist and developmental psychologist known for her work in the area of sensory processing disorder [2]