Foster Dyer, who died a year before the wedding, was a wealthy rancher in Fort Bend County.

Her maternal grandmother Nancy Gray Spencer Barnett was among the original colonists who came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin.

[7] The house was designed in 1883 by Thomas Culshaw, as a four-bedroom, two-story Victorian mansion with a center tower and cupola.

The First Baptist Church of Richmond was founded in the Moore house, which served as its original meeting location.

Page and Brothers of Austin designed the 1905 Classical Revival remodel of the house and connecting property.