Contact:
Patsy Herrington, Managing Director of The W.H. Stark House
409.883.0871
pherrington@whstarkhouse.org

 

ORANGE, Texas, June 9 – The W.H. Stark House will partner with the Orange Peel Out Car Club to host the 2nd Annual Open Car Show on June 26, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  The car show will include cars ranging from antiques to vintage to street rods.  The 1909 Hupmobile Roadster and the 1918 Model T Truck, both owned by H.J. Lutcher Stark, will be on display at the Carriage House (behind The W.H. Stark House) at 310 W. Main Avenue.  This event is free to the public and is located at the Lutcher Theater parking lot, 707 Main Avenue, at the corner of Main and Sixth Street.

 

Throughout the event a film showing the 2003 restoration of the Hupmobile will be playing in the Carriage House.  The car was built from a 1908 prototype by the Hupp Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan. Brothers Robert and Louis Hupp organized the company to build and market a light two-seater runabout. The runabout auto was powered by a 4-cylinder engine that produced 16-20 hp, had a shaft drive, a sliding gear transmission with two forward speeds and reverse, 30" wheels with 3" tires, and a fuel tank at the rear with gravity feed. The wheelbase is 86" long, but the body resembled that of some of the highpowered runabouts then available costing much more than the $750 the Hupmobile sold for.

 

Anyone is welcome to enter cars in the car show for a registration fee of $20 prior to the event or $25 the day of the event. The Orange Peel Out Club will accept cars ranging from antique to vintage to street rod, and prizes will be awarded in various classes. Participants in the car show must be of 18 years of age or must obtain the permission of a parent or legal guardian. To enter, participants should submit their name, spouse's name, address, city, state, zip code, phone number, signature aud vehicle information including mileage, club, make, model and year to the Orange Peel Out Car Club, 22 Pinewood Circle, Orange, Texas, 77630.

 

All proceeds from events will be awarded to local students in vocational trades. For more information, please visit whstarkhouse.org or call 409.883.0871.
 

 

 

 

About The W.H. Stark House
The W.H. Stark House is a Victorian landmark in Orange, Texas, which has been restored to its original splendor.
 
The 14,000 square-foot home was completed in 1894 in Orange, Texas, by William Henry Stark and his wife, Miriam M. Lutcher Stark, prominent philanthropists who occupied the home until 1936. Designed in the Queen Anne architectural style, the house features a distinctive turret, stained glass windows, and ornate woodwork in cypress and long leaf yellow pine.

Today, the three-story structure stands much as it did at the turn of the 20th century, with fifteen rooms of original family furnishings, personal effects and decorative arts, including antique rugs, original textiles, silver, cut glass and antique porcelain. Also featured are the W.H. Stark family's impressive collections of American Brilliant Period cut glass, pressed and pattern glass, milk glass, porcelains, and other 18th and 19th century decorative accessories. The interior of both The W.H. Stark House and its adjacent Carriage House depicts the home life of the W.H. Starks in the early 1900s and provides an extraordinary statement of Texas' social history.
 
The W.H. Stark House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a Record Texas Historic Landmark by the Texas Historical Commission. The W.H. Stark House is a program of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, a private operating foundation, whose other programs include the Stark Museum of Art, the Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, and Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center.