A Brief Timeline  of the Stillman House Museum

• 1850: Built by Henry Miller, owner of the Miller Hotel in downtown Brownsville.
• 1850:  Miller rents out the house to his partner, Charles Stillman.  Stillman moves into the house with his new bride, Elizabeth Stillman (nee Goodrich)
• 1850:  Charles and Elizabeth’s eldest son, James (Jewett) Stillman was born.
• 1852:  Charles and Elizabeth’s eldest daughter, Isabel Stillman was born.
• 1853:  Yellow Fever breaks out in Brownsville, Elizabeth and her children move to Connecticut permanently.
• 1853:  Charles Stillman moves out.
• 1858:  Henry Miller sells the house to Manuel Trevino de Los Santos Coy, Mexican Consul to Brownsville.
• 1866:  Charles Stillman permanently moves back to Connecticut
• 1875:  Charles Stillman passes away.
• 1875:  Manuel Trevino, Porfirio Diaz, and others gather to secretly plot the overthrow of the Mexican president Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada.
• 1876: Porfirio Diaz becomes president of Mexico, a position he would hold until 1910
• 1958: The Trevino family, after 100 years, sells their family home.  The home is purchased by Chauncey Stillman, great-grandson of Charles Stillman.
• 1958: After restoration, the house is donated to the City of Brownsville, with the condition that the Brownsville Historical Association manage the property.
• 1960:  The Stillman House is opened as a public museum.
• 2008:  Hurricane Dolly hits Brownsville, damaging the Stillman House.
• 2009:  The Stillman House is re-opened to the public after restorations.