Chisum Independent School District

The Sam Bell Maxey House is a historic house in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. Samuel Bell Maxey, a prominent local attorney and later two-term U.S. senator, built the large two-story house after serving as a major general in the Confederate Army. It is built in the High Victorian Italianate style. From 1868 to 1966, the house was the home of Samuel B. Maxey and his family. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lamar County, Texas on March 18, 1971. The house was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1962. Restoration was completed September 1, 1980, and it was opened to the public on a tour basis. On January 1, 2008, the house was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission and is now operated at the Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist at 339 West Kaufman in Paris, Texas, is a former Church of Christ, Scientist church and an historic structure that, in 1988, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was then vacant. In 2009 it was being used by a Spanish-speaking Baptist congregation.It is a one-story raised brick building, with broad steps leading up to a portico of Ionic columns and a large entablature. It has double French doors with transoms leading to its sanctuary. The sides have three tall arched windows.Its nomination suggests it is significant as "one of the earlier Christian Science churches in Texas" and as "one of the first Beaux Arts-style buildings constructed in Paris, Texas after the fire [of 1916], it is an unusually well-detailed small church. It compares favorably with Temple Freda (NR 1984) in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas."A photo taken in Winter 1984/85 shows that a banner displaying "Ensign Christian Center" appears in the entablature above its front entrance, while the 2015 photo above shows a blank banner obscuring carved letters after "FIR....".

First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 410 West Kaufman Street in Paris, Texas. It was built in 1892, and added to the National Register in 1988.

The Means–Justiss House on 6th St., SE, in Paris, Texas is a one-and-a-half-story house that was built in c.1923: by 1926 it replaced a two-story house that was on its location in 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.It is a "fine" Craftsman bungalow apparently built by Oscar and Mary Means. It was later occupied by Thomas Justiss, supervisor of Paris schools.

First United Methodist Church is a historic church at 322 Lamar Street in Paris, Texas.It was built in 1922 and added to the National Register in 1983.

Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020.

H. L. "Hub" Hollis Field is a baseball venue located in Paris, Texas, and the home of the Paris Junior College Dragons baseball team. The facility is named after the school's first Athletic Director and Head Football Coach, who worked in the 1920s.

Lamar County () is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas, in the Northeast Texas region. As of the 2020 census, its population was 50,088. Its county seat is Paris. The county was formed by the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 17, 1840, and organized the next year. It is named for Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas. Lamar County comprises the Paris, TX micropolitan statistical area.

Paris High School is a public high school serving students grades 9–12 located in the city of Paris, Lamar County, Texas, and is zoned to Paris and its immediate surroundings. It is one of the two high schools in the Paris Independent School District and is in UIL region 4A, In 2022, the school was rated "meets requirements" by the Texas Education Agency.

Paris Junior College (PJC) is a public community college with three campuses in Texas: Paris, Greenville, and Sulphur Springs. The college was founded in 1924 as a campus of Paris Independent School District. Nearly 5,000 students are enrolled at the college.

Texas's Eiffel Tower is a landmark in the city of Paris, Texas. The tower was constructed in 1993. It is a scale model of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France; at 65 feet in height, it is roughly one-sixteenth of the height of the original.