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The First White House of the Confederacy is a historic house in Montgomery, Alabama, which was the initial executive residence of President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis and family during early 1861. Moved from its original location in 1919 and completely furnished with original period pieces from the 1850s and 1860s, the ...
Built in 1835, this house was used by the provisional government of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his family from February until May 1861. Many personal items of the President and Mrs. Davis are in the house, along with authentic furnishing from that period.
Sep 28, 2023 · Jefferson Davis’s Study A new group, the White House Association (WHA) of Alabama, was founded on July 1, 1900, for the purpose of saving and preserving the first White House of the Confederacy but struggled for nearly 20 years as the residence became a boarding house and fell into disrepair. When the owner at the time, listed as Mrs. R. L ...
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Now a museum, the First White House of the Confederacy was the Montgomery home of Jefferson Davis, first president of the Confederate States of America. Davis and his wife lived in the house from February to May 1861, when the capital of the Confederacy was moved to Richmond, Virginia. Photograph by Justin Dubois.
The American Civil War Museum ( formerly known as the Museum of the Confederacy) is a multi-site museum in the Greater Richmond Region of central Virginia, dedicated to the history of the American Civil War. The museum operates three sites: The White House of the Confederacy, American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, and ...
The First White House of the Confederacy is. a beautiful old landmark in the downtown. area of historic Montgomery, Alabama. The house was built in 1832-1835 by an. ancestor of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the famed. American novelist, "original Flapper girl" of. the 1920s and wife of writer F. Scott.
