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John Jay French Museum

John Jay French Museum

The John Jay French house, built in 1845, was one of the first painted houses as well as one of the first two-story houses in Beaumont, Texas. The first home in Beaumont built with milled lumber, the John Jay French house is one of Beaumont's oldest surviving homes.

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