{"nrhp_refnum":"79002925","name":"Chambersea","other_names":["General Thomas Jefferson Chambers House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Washington and Cummings Sts","address_restricted":false,"city":"Anahuac","county":"Chambers County","state":"TX","lat":29.77085691900004,"lon":-94.68467877499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Historic - Aboriginal","Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Chambersea is a two-story wood frame Greek Revival house at Washington and Cummings Streets in Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, built in 1845 by General Thomas Jefferson Chambers as his homestead.","why_significant":"The house is significant as an early Greek Revival frame dwelling with Louisiana-influenced details, designed by General Chambers to express his devotion to Texas, including a star window and a waterfront site. It is also tied to Chambers, who took part in early land colonization, the Texas Revolution and long-running land disputes. The site also has archeological potential.","narrative":"Chambersea is a two-story wood frame house at the corner of Washington and Cummings Streets in Anahuac, Texas. General Thomas Jefferson Chambers designed and built it in 1845 as the center of a self-sustaining plantation that raised livestock and cotton. It follows Greek Revival principles of symmetry and adds Louisiana-style elements, including double galleries, lattice screening and an exterior circular stair. Cypress board-and-batten siding covers a pine frame. A round window with a five-pointed star reflects Chambers's attachment to Texas. The house was once larger; the eastern section was removed sometime between 1910 and 1936. Chambers worked as a surveyor general, attorney general and judge under Coahuila and Texas, received large land grants, and was commissioned a major general in 1836 to raise volunteers and supplies for the Texas cause. He was assassinated at the house in 1865. Chambers County bought the property in 1943, and restoration is planned.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"General Thomas Jefferson Chambers","architectural_style":"Greek Revival with Louisiana influence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by Chambers County since 1943 and currently used for sorting archival records; the form lists it as unoccupied and says restoration is planned.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.581438-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/9714/40971494/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79002925.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002925/462333520a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002925/462333520a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chambersea_anahuac_tx_2014.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chambersea_anahuac_tx_2014.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971494","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001756"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/chambers-county/chambersea-79002925/"}