Moonshine at the Seasons

Texas lawmen bust a still near Jefferson in 1930 The moonshine still as you drive into The Seasons was built around 1925 in the Jefferson area. With the beginning of prohibition in January 1920 the illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol was banned everywhere. The...

Louisiana Governor Borrows our Bushes for his Inauguration

On a cold day in January  2016, our landscape team was planning a trip to Bracy’s Nursery in Amite City, Louisiana to pick up our carefully selected Savannah Holly bushes that were to be added to the landscape at the House of the Seasons in Jefferson, Texas. The...

Tragedy at the House of the Seasons

In 1898, a tragedy occurred at the House of the Seasons. James King and his wife, Minnie, had acquired several lots and a home on Friou Street behind the House of the Seasons in 1896. Two years later their two-year-old son fell into a cistern located next to the arbor...

Artist Restores House’s Historic Murals

Art Conservationist Stashka Star, of Dallas, completed the restoration of intricate murals at the House of the Seasons, a historic home and museum in Jefferson, Texas, in 2003. Renowned for her restoration of Art Deco murals at Dallas’ Fair Park, Star was hired in...

A Soul Known Only To God

Here Lie the Remains During the last week of August 2015, human skull fragments were found behind the House of the Seasons, specifically in the soil around an ornamental shrub which had just been installed by Roy Koopman’s work crew (J D’s Plant Farm and Landscaping,...