Built in 1830 by Adolphus Sterne, prominent merchant and Texas revolution leader. Sam Houston baptized into the Roman Catho-lic Church here, because Mexico required landholders to be Catholic. Guests in the home included Thomas J. Rusk and Davy Crockett. New Orleans Greys bi-vouacked here on their way to Goliad and the Alamo. A block off E. Main St. (Texas 21).