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MOUNTS HOUSE
MOUNTS 11870,19421 BUILT THIS HOME 'INF1898, THE MOUNTS FAMILY
CAME TO DENTON COUNTY IN THE 1850E FROM VIRGINIA, IN 1857,
ROBERT MOUNTS' FATHER, W,H, MOUNTS, RELOCATED HIS MERCANTILE
BUSINESS FROM NEARBY ALTON TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE TOWN SQUARE
WITH THE MVE OF THE DENTOCUNTY SEAT,
MOTHER, MAT IE INAYNES) MOUNTS*ES ABLISHED THEBERT FIRSTASUNDAY
SCHOOL IN DENTON IN 18680 AND IN 1894, OPENED THE FIRST
KINDERGARTEN IN DENTON, THIS HOUSE SITS ON LAND ONCE PART OF THE
MOUNTS FARM WHERE THEY PRODUCED COTTON, FRUIT, AND LIVESTOCK,
.�' ROBERT MOUNTS WAS IMPORTANT IN FURTHERING THE RANCHING
INDUSTRY IN TEXAS, AS A YOUNG MAN, HE WORKED AT THE IS,000. ACRE
GREGG RANCH NORTHWEST OF DENTON, AFTER THE DEATH OF GREGG
RANCH OWNER, WILLIAM GREGG,OBERT IN 1889, MOUNTS MANAGED THE
RANCH FOR MANY YRS, INMOUNTS
O MERE ORD, EXASWHEREIHE OWNED AA AND ST RANCIH CONSIST NGVED OF
84,000! ACRES AND WAS A COUNTY COMMISSIONER, CITY COUNCILMAN,
BOARD TRUSTEE, HE WAS ONE OF
THE FOREMOST NK STOCKMEN INANDRT EHOOL PANHANDLE AND HELPED OPEN TEXAS
CATTLE MARKETS TO THE NORTH.
THIS QUEEN ANNE VICTORIAN HOME FEATURES CLAPBOARD SIDING,
SCROLLED ORNAMENTATION, AND TYPICAL EASTLAKE LATHE, GOUGE, ND
CHISEL WOKI THE SIGNATURE DIAMONFOCAL
DINT, T HINTERIOR FEATURES MEA TDP NIE FLOORS ANDIS AUAL WOO EN
ORNAMENTATION, THE NORTH WING WAS AN EARLY ADDITION TO THE
HOUSE, ADDED TO ACCOMMODATE THE OFFICE SPACE NEEDED WHEN IT
WAS USED BY THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AS A MINISTER'S
MANSE FROM 1919.1943,
RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK - 4016
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