The Moody Museum is open for tours on saturdays from 2-5 p.m. and by appointment
Step Into Texas History
1887 Historical Home
The Moody Museum is housed in a Victorian home built in 1887. The home features large windows, transoms above the interior doors and ornate metal hinges on all interior doors. The colors on the home’s exterior are a modern day reproduction of the home’s original paint colors.
Dan Moody Life And Career
Dan Moody was Texas’ youngest governor. In the upstairs room devoted to his life and career visitors can learn of his battle against the Ku Klux Klan in 1923 when he was a young district attorney for Travis and Williamson counties. The exhibits also include information about his work as an electrical lineman, his time as attorney general and governor and his personal life.
Moody Family Artifacts
The downstairs area of the two-story home is set up as a family home. The furnishings are all original Moody family pieces. Among the oldest pieces are a quilt made by the governor’s great grandmother in 1810, a spinning wheel also dating to 1810 and two paintings that were wedding gifts to the governor’s parents in 1890. Nancy Robertson Moody’s wedding dress from 1890 is also on display.
Taylor Community Room
The Taylor History room introduces visitors to other people who called Taylor home and went on to make a name for themselves in various areas of endeavor. Exhibits tell of actors, animators, writers, athletes and others. One exhibit is devoted to Dr. James Dickey, a black physician, who was Taylor’s Outstanding Citizen in 1953.