W. H. Stark House

Stark House is a fully restored, 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) Victorian home located on the corner between Green Avenue and Sixth Street in Orange, Texas.

He and his wife Frances began a philanthropic dynasty that continues to benefit the Orange community today.

In 1881 Miriam M. Lutcher married William Henry Stark, who made his fortune in banking, oil, rice, insurance, and the regional timber industry.

The house is classified in the Queen Anne architectural style, which is characterized by long sloping roofs, second floor balconies, Jacobean chimneys, wide verandas, and octagonal or round towers.

Turned pieces were formed on a foot-operated machine lathe, and each board had to be cut and measured for a precise fit.

The 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) home today is furnished much as it was in the 1920s, with fifteen rooms and three stories of original family furniture, carpets, silver, antique porcelains, and American Brilliant Period cut glass.

The ceiling in the Music Room is oil painted on canvas by artist E. Theo Behr; it features an allegorical scene with cherubs.

It aims to improve the quality of life in Southeast Texas by encouraging, promoting, and assisting education, the arts, and health and human services.

These programs offer the community a rich resource for study and enjoyment of arts, history, nature and culture.

He was able to ascertain that Lutcher Stark committed fraud by undervaluing his first wife Nita's estate to get out of paying death taxes.

Heirs from one of two adopted sons of Lutcher Stark and his first wife Nita, hired Louisiana attorney L. Clayton Burgess.