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McFaddin-Ward House

The McFaddin-Ward House is a historic home in Beaumont, Texas, United States built between 1905 1906 in the Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival style. The 12,800-square-foot house and furnishings reflect the lifestyle of the prominent family who lived in the house for seventy-five years. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Di Vernon Averill commissioned architect Henry Conrad Mauer to build the house, which was sold the next year to Dis brother, William P.H. McFaddin. McFaddin and his wife Ida Caldwell McFaddin, from Huntington, West Virginia, moved into the house in 1907 with their three children: Mamie, age 12, Perry, Jr., age 9, and James Caldwell, age 6. A substantial carriage house was added in the same year. The carriage house had a stable, hayloft, garage, gymnasium and servants quarters. When the McFaddins daughter Mamie married Carroll Ward in 1919, the newlyweds moved in with the McFaddins and lived their entire married life there. Before Mamie McFaddin Ward died in 1982, she created a foundation to preserve the house and the house opened as a museum in 1986. The entire grounds are currently open to the public. Outside the three-floor home are spacious lawns and flower beds and rose gardens. Inside, a substantial permanent collection of antique furniture and household items are in view. The McFaddin-Ward House is one of the few house museums in which the home’s original furnishings are intact and on display. It is also one of the few Beaux-Arts Colonial homes still open to the public. Educational programs focus on history and are geared toward children and adults. The museum hosts lectures, special celebrations, summer camps, and open houses. New exhibits and displays are changed out often, giving fresh interpretations of the home. Christmas time is especially celebrated with special events and Eggnog Thursdays when the public is invited to enjoy eggnog and the McFaddin-recipe tea-cakes before touring the first floor of the house in the December evenings. In addition, it was named a Texas State Historic Landmark in 1976, and the home has been featured on TVs Arts Entertainments Americas Castles as a Lone Star Estate, and the house has been included in several important architectural books. Once every three years, the McFaddin-Ward House museum hosts a historic house museum conference, inviting hundreds of other historic sites to participate. The next conference will be held in 2016.

Montagne Center

The Montagne Center, built in 1984, is a 10,746-seat multi-purpose arena in Beaumont, Texas designed especially for the basketball program. After one year of operation, the arenas seating capacity was expanded from 8,000 in basketball configuration to its current seating capacity of 10,080. The 10,080 capacity is made up of 8,102 permanent seats and a telescopic chairback seating system totaling 1,978 seats. All seats in the arena are cushioned with the exception of folding back seats in the four topmost rows of seats. Including floor seating, the arena has a maximum capacity of 10,746 in event configuration. The Montagne Center is currently home to the Lamar University Cardinals and Lady Cardinals basketball teams. The arena was previously the home of the Lady Cardinals volleyball team until renovations to McDonald Gym were completed in 2006-07. The arena floor can host sporting events including basketball, volleyball, wrestling, boxing and martial arts tournaments. With stadium and floor seating, the Montagne Center can be configured for hosting concert events. The arena floor can also be transformed into hosting graduation ceremonies, proms, dances, banquets and conferences. The building includes the following in addition to the main arena area: Offices Two perimeter courts VIP/Red room which can accommodate 20 to 150 guests located above the Concourse Level and overlooks the arena as well as the adjacent Provost Umphrey Stadium Cardinal Club Room which can accommodate 20 to 200 guests Players lounge Study area Meeting room 3,442 sq ft with adjacent kitchen

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