Description
In 1900, only a few months after the deadly hurricane of September, W. L. Moody Jr. and his circle of relatives moved into the four-story mansion on the corner of Broadway and Twenty-sixth Street in Galveston. For the following eight decades, the Moody circle of relatives occupied the 28,000-square-foot home: raising a circle of relatives, creating memories, building business empires, and contributing their considerable wealth and influence for the betterment of their beloved city.
In 1983, Hurricane Alicia damaged the mansion, and Mary Moody Northen, eldest child of W. L. Moody Jr., moved out so an important restoration could begin. When the mansion opened to the public as a museum, education center, and location for community gatherings in 1991, it had been restored to its original grandeur.
The Mary Moody Northen Endowment then commissioned award-winning writer Henry Wiencek to write a history of the Moodys of Galveston and their celebrated home. Robert L. Moody Sr., grandson of W. L. Moody Jr. and nephew of Mary Moody Northen, contributes a foreword, giving a brief introduction and personal tone to the book, which also features fifteen color photographs of the Moodys and their home. An epilogue by E. Douglas McLeod summarizes the circle of relatives’s accomplishments and developments associated with the mansion since Northen’s death in 1986.
The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion is a should-read for Galvestonians, for the thousands of visitors who tour the mansion every year, and for somebody interested within the captivating tale of this influential and generous circle of relatives and their magnificent house.
In 1983, Hurricane Alicia damaged the mansion, and Mary Moody Northen, eldest child of W. L. Moody Jr., moved out so an important restoration could begin. When the mansion opened to the public as a museum, education center, and location for community gatherings in 1991, it had been restored to its original grandeur.
The Mary Moody Northen Endowment then commissioned award-winning writer Henry Wiencek to write a history of the Moodys of Galveston and their celebrated home. Robert L. Moody Sr., grandson of W. L. Moody Jr. and nephew of Mary Moody Northen, contributes a foreword, giving a brief introduction and personal tone to the book, which also features fifteen color photographs of the Moodys and their home. An epilogue by E. Douglas McLeod summarizes the circle of relatives’s accomplishments and developments associated with the mansion since Northen’s death in 1986.
The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion is a should-read for Galvestonians, for the thousands of visitors who tour the mansion every year, and for somebody interested within the captivating tale of this influential and generous circle of relatives and their magnificent house.
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