W H Stark House

We like going here around Christmas when the house is decorated and there is a small ensemble playing Christmas music.

We decided to do a day trip to Orange to visit the Shangri-​La Botanical Gardens (see my other review) and thought we’d stop at this old home for our elderly guest.
You cannot go straight to the house for a tour, you must meet at the Stark museum across the street, purchase a ticket, and then be accompanied by a tour guide to the house. The museum is free if you’d like to visit that while you are there. Once you walk over to the house you cannot bring a camera in with you. A knowledgeable and very long winded tour guide will bring you around the average sized home for about an hour describing every room in detail.
It’s a pretty home from the outside and I wish that was all I had seen. The long tour of the inside was boring. Our tour guide was obviously very proud of the home and the history of the house in relation to Orange, Texas, but it wasn’t as interesting to out of town people. I don’t think that I am being overly harsh. My 70 year old mother-​in-​law accompanied us; she is a huge fan of old homes and antiques. She found the tour to be too long and to focus on mundane items in the house.
My suggestion… go to Orange for the day. Visit Shangri-​La and stop in front of this home to see how pretty it is from the outside.