Sam Bell Maxey House, Historic Victorian residence in Paris, United States.

The Sam Bell Maxey House is a large two-story house in Paris, Texas, built in the High Victorian Italianate style. Samuel Bell Maxey, a local attorney and later two-term U.S. senator, built it after serving as a major general in the Confederate Army. It was the Maxey family home from 1868 to 1966.

Samuel Bell Maxey, a local attorney and Confederate major general, built the two-story house after the war; it was the Maxey family home from 1868 to 1966. It was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1962 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 18, 1971. Restoration finished on September 1, 1980, when it opened for tours; on January 1, 2008, operation passed from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission.

The house shows how a wealthy Texas family lived and what role they played in their community during the 1800s and early 1900s. Visitors can see how families arranged their homes and what objects mattered to them in daily life.

The residence is located in Paris in northeast Texas and can be explored through guided tours that take visitors through the rooms and collections. The building has multiple levels and stairs, so visitors should be prepared for some walking within the house.

The house passed from the Maxey family only in 1966, after nearly a century of continuous ownership, and was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission on January 1, 2008. It is now operated as the Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site.