Bassett House

In 1875, Henry Bassett constructed this two-story brick house in Limestone County, Texas. Symmetrical and rectangular in plan, the house’s brick masonry exterior walls are unusual for Texas farmhouses of the mid-1870s and were likely built with local bricks from the Kosse area. The house has been the center of farm and ranch life at Bassett Farms for nearly 150 years, and has been designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. The exterior of the house was restored to its historic 1916 appearance by Preservation Texas in 2022.