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The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion: Volume 13
Contributor(s): Wiencek, Henry (Author), Moody, Robert L. (Foreword by), McLeod, E. Douglas (Epilogue by)
ISBN: 1603441824     ISBN-13: 9781603441827
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Business
- History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx)
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2009032148
Series: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.3" W x 10.3" (1.05 lbs) 136 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Texas
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
 
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Publisher Description:
In 1900, just a few months after the deadly hurricane of September, W. L. Moody Jr. and his family moved into the four-story mansion at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-sixth Street in Galveston. For the next eight decades, the Moody family occupied the 28,000-square-foot home: raising a family, 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 a major 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 author 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 family's accomplishments and developments associated with the mansion since Northen's death in 1986.

The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion is a must-read for Galvestonians, for the thousands of visitors who tour the mansion each year, and for anyone interested in the captivating tale of this influential and generous family and their magnificent house.