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DATE: September 12,
2005
TO: Historic Landmark Commission
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Request for approval of an HC-L (Historic Cultural-Landmark
Preservation Designation) Overlay District.
FILE: 48-HC
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval of this request.
The Beaumont Heritage Society is requesting an HC-L (Historic
Cultural-Landmark Preservation Designation) for the A Chambers
House @ at 2240 Calder.
Recently, the Beaumont Heritage Society was named to oversee the
restoration and operation of the Chambers House Museum. The
museum is expected to be open to the public in early 2006.
The house is in both the 1989 and 1990 SPARE Beaumont survey.
The 1989 SPARE stated that the house is probably the city=s best
example of the Colonial Revival style. The house is typical of homes
built by wealthy Beaumont families after the second Spindletop boom.
It is one of the last properties on Calder with both house and grounds
intact surviving from the days when Calder was Beaumont=s premier
residential neighborhood.
The house was built by Mr. Hardee Turner of Turner and Nabors
Lumber Company. He acquired the land in 1906 and built the house
not long after that. The Chambers family, C. Homer and Edith Fuller
Chambers, with their daughters, Ruth and Florence, purchased the
house in 1914. In 1924, they added the pillars in front of the house
and the sun porch on the side. Mr. Chambers owned Chambers
Hardware. Members of the Chambers family occupied the house until
2002.
Exhibits are attached.