Moody Mansion

Galveston’s 28,000 square-foot, four-story Moody Mansion was completed in 1895, and was restored to its turn of the century splendor in the late 1980s.

Today, guests visit 20 rooms on a tour that depicts the home life of the Moody family, which built one of the nation’s great financial empires.

W.L Moody Jr. bought the home from the heirs of the original owners soon after the great hurricane of 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Moody and their four children celebrated the first of more than 80 Christmas seasons in the house in December of that year. The house remained home for Moody family members until 1983, and today its rooms are filled with family furnishings and personal effects. A garage facility houses three restored family vehicles dating back to the 1930s, and a gift shop offers Mansion visitors the opportunity to take home a remembrance of historic Galveston.

www.moodymansion.org