This early Texas plantation home was built in 1859 by Malcolm Camp, a wealthy cotton planter, in the architectural style of the Atlantic states, with lumber hauled from East Texas sawmills. Its high-ceilinged rooms are very large, and its formal dining room in a sandstone-lined cellar was unique. The house had a detached kitchen. In 1883 it was purchased by R.B.S. Foster, a leading local citizen who lived from 1848 to 1889, and it was the birthplace of his three children, Georgia, Robert F., and Nettie Rose. The locality was so stable that the home was continuously occupied until 1966 by members of the Foster family or their agents.