Samuel May Williams House
Historic house in Texas, United States
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The Samuel May Williams House is a former museum in Galveston, Texas. The second-oldest surviving residence in Galveston, it is now on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964.
The home was built in 1839 for Samuel May Williams, one of the founders of Galveston. The prefabricated house was shipped from Maine and constructed 7 feet (2.1 m) off the ground, supported by ten piers. The 1+1⁄2-story house was topped with a cupola, where Williams installed a telescope so that he could be one of the first to learn when interesting cargo arrived by ship. After Williams' death in 1858, the house was sold to his friend, Philip C. Tucker, Jr., and became known as the Tucker House. The Tucker family retained possession of the house until 1953.
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