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Mounts House 20210609_113730_HDRPlW4 D lo.A 1 1 i I + 4 1� Y **� 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 i S Kll p PROPERTY OF ME SOU! OP RIGS