Robert Noble Mounts and Nannie Lee (Christal) Mounts built this home in 1898 on land that had once been part of the Mounts farm, where the family produced cotton, fruit, and livestock. The Mounts family came to Denton County from Virginia in the 1850s, and in 1857 Robert Mounts’ father, W.H. Mounts, moved his mercantile business from nearby Alton to the west side of the town square when the Denton County Seat was relocated. Robert’s mother, Mattie (Haynes) Mounts, established Denton’s first Sunday School in 1868 and opened its first kindergarten in 1892. Robert Mounts became important in advancing the ranching industry in Texas, first working as a young man at the more than 15,000-acre Gregg Ranch northwest of Denton and then managing it for many years after owner William Gregg died in 1889. In 1899 Robert and Nannie Mounts moved to Hereford, Texas, where he owned a ranch of more than 84,000 acres and served as a County Commissioner, City Councilman, Bank Director, and Charter School Board Trustee. He was among the foremost stockmen in the panhandle and helped open Texas cattle markets to the north. The Queen Anne Victorian house features clapboard siding, scrolled ornamentation, Eastlake lathe, gouge, and chisel work, a signature diamond window, heart-pine floors, and wooden interior ornamentation. Its north wing was an early addition made to provide office space when the house served as the Central Presbyterian Church minister’s manse from 1919 to 1943.