Moore House, Fifth Street, Richmond, Fort Bend County, TX

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention

Significance: John M. Moore, a Fort Bend rancher, built this town house for his new bride Lottie Dyer, in 1883. Architect Thomas Culshaw, originally from Liverpool, England, designed the house in bracketed Italianate style with bay windows, a center cupola and a mansard-type roof capped with elaborate cresting. The front porch had exotic columns and a carpenter Gothic rail. Period photographs suggest a high Victorian paint scheme. Moore was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1905 and the house was remodeled in a new Greek Revival style/Colonial style by Page and Company of San Antonio over the next few years. Some of these changes have been removed, notably two semicircular porches now replaced with a screen porch. The foundations and roof construction reveal evidence of the 1883 house and the later modifications...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N131

Survey number: HABS TX-3393

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1933 - 1970

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