Hurricanes continue to affect the history of the home. In September 2008, Hurricane Ike led to the flooding of the basement. Libbie Moody's potting room and the period kitchen were lost. As of July 2014, the basement was opened as the Galveston Children's Museum. The home has thirty-one rooms and five Tyndall incorporated many technological advances of the period including a one-passenger elevator, a dumbwaiter, speaking tubes in the pantry for communicating with the kitchen staff in the basement, heated drying racks in the laundry room, and lighting fixtures using both gas and electricity. The house also has its own rainwater cistern. The home has four floors. The basement which contained the servant's quarters and kitchen is on the ground floor.