Lamar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas, in the Northeast Texas region. As of the 2020 census, its population was 50,088. Its county seat is Paris. The county was formed by the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 17, 1840, and organized the next year. It is named for Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas. Lamar County comprises the Paris, TX micropolitan statistical area.
The Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site is located at 609 S. Lamar Avenue in Denison, Grayson County, in the U.S. state of Texas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in the house on October 14, 1890, the first United States President to be born in Texas.
The Sam Bell Maxey House is a historic house in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. Samuel Bell Maxey, a prominent local attorney and later two-term U.S. senator, built the large two-story house after serving as a major general in the Confederate Army. It is built in the High Victorian Italianate style.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist at 339 West Kaufman in Paris, Texas, is a former Church of Christ, Scientist church and an historic structure that, in 1988, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was then vacant. In 2009 it was being used by a Spanish-speaking Baptist congregation.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lamar County, Texas.
St. Mary's Catholic Church is a historic Catholic church at 701 Church in Brenham, Texas.
Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 217 West Twenty-sixth in Bryan, Texas.
Saint Anthony's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church building at 306 S. Parker in Bryan, Texas.
First Protestant Church is a historic church at 296 South Seguin Street in New Braunfels, Texas.
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic church on FM 1383 in Ammannsville, Texas. It was built in 1917 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is a historic church on FM 1295 in Praha, Texas.
St. Joseph's Church is a historic church at 2202 Avenue K in Galveston, Texas. It is the oldest German Catholic church in Texas and one of the oldest buildings in Galveston.
Fort Street Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building at 516 W. Hopkins Street in San Marcos, Texas.
Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church is a historic church on FM 957 in Moravia, Texas.
Lutcher Memorial Church Building, now the First Presbyterian Church of Orange, Texas, is a historic church at 902 W. Green Avenue in Orange, Texas.
Saint Mary's Catholic Church is a historic church at 101 W. Church in Victoria, Texas.
First United Methodist Church is a historic church at 322 Lamar Street in Paris, Texas.
The Means–Justiss House on 6th St., SE, in Paris, Texas is a one-and-a-half-story house that was built in c.1923: by 1926 it replaced a two-story house that was on its location in 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The Ronald Kirk Bridge is a pedestrian bridge over the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. It connects Downtown Dallas and West Dallas, paralleling the 2012 Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge for vehicles, and the 1930 Texas and Pacific Railway Trinity River Bridge.
The Lamar–Calder House is a historic house, on the former Lamar Plantation in Richmond, Texas.
