In the 1870s, French interests entered the region through the railroad and eventually formed the Franco Texan Land Company, through which a number of Frenchmen arrived in Texas, including Marie Clèment Paul, Comte de Bresson, born in 1867. In 1889, Parker County resident Alfred Hammond, de Voisins, acting on the advice of his stepfather in France, arranged for the Comte de Bresson’s arrival and purchased 175.7 acres, where he constructed a stable because the Comte intended to sell thoroughbred horses. The Comte arrived in October 1889, Hammond sold the land to him, and the stable was most likely built by French stonemasons, as its features resemble stables in France; Parker County once had several now-lost stables of this style. This south-facing structure measures 87 feet by 17 feet with a 46 degree pitched roof, contains six stables, has a central staircase leading to a hay loft spanning the building’s length, gives each stable a south-facing door and a small north-facing window for light, and has internal walls nine inches thick. The Comte de Bresson took his sorrel blooded mare, Ribaude, and his stallion, Scotland Glory II, to the 1889 State Fair in Dallas, but his thoroughbred business was brief, with newspaper advertisements ceasing in early 1890. He appointed Paul Chaptine as his agent and returned to France in 1890, then sold his Parker County land in February 1896. Because of the small number of French settlers in Texas, the stable remains one of the few examples of historic French country architecture in the area.