The McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style. Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in town by local architect Henry Conrad Mauer during the early twentieth century. Photo by Carol Highsmith.