John M. and Lottie D. Moore House, Neoclassical residence in Richmond, Texas.

The John M. and Lottie D. Moore House is a two-story Victorian mansion at 406 S. Fifth Street, designed in 1883 by Thomas Culshaw with four bedrooms, a central tower and cupola. A 1905 Classical Revival remodel by C.H. Page and Brothers of Austin added the front porch and columns, new hardwood floors, an entry stairway and a reworked dining room. Seven coal-burning fireplaces heat the interior, and a grape arbor and gazebo stand on the grounds.

John Matthew Moore and Lottie Dyer Moore built the house in 1883, the year they married; Thomas Culshaw designed it as a four-bedroom, two-story Victorian mansion with a center tower and cupola. In 1905 C.H. Page and Brothers of Austin remodeled it in the Classical Revival style, adding the porch and columns of the front facade, new hardwood floors, a front entry stairway and a reworked dining room. The house passed through successive heirs until 1975, when the last family member died and it was deeded to the Fort Bend History Association.

The First Baptist Church of Richmond was founded in the Moore house, which served as its first meeting place until the congregation moved to its own building in 1889. The house later passed to successive heirs until the last family member died in 1975, when it was deeded to the Fort Bend History Association.

The residence is located on Fifth Street and functions as part of the Fort Bend Museum complex, with its original room layout and historic details preserved. Visitors can explore the outbuildings and grounds that form part of the overall site.

Lottie Moore's inheritance came from two sides of her family: from her grandmother Nancy Gray Spencer Barnett, one of Stephen F. Austin's original colonists, she received acreage of the 1824 land grant in Fort Bend County; from her grandfather Thomas Barnett, the cattle on the ranch.