"Beauvoir," the
last home of Jefferson
Davis, was reproduced at the World's Fair with all of the surrounding
beauty that marked the original at Boloxi, the great forest trees of the
Plateau of States formed a setting resembling the familiar country place.
The structure faced Commonwealth Boulevard and had for neighbors the Iowa, New Jersey and Indian Territory buildings. Sentiment
having guided the commissioners in designing the State building, the people
of Mississippi foresaw an opportunity to bring before the World's Fair visitors
their store of historic treasures. The interior had been converted into
a veritable museum of the Southland. Household articles loaned by the widow
of the President of the Confederacy, heirlooms which had been in the Davis family for a hundred
years prior to the Civil War, and rare bits of furniture, important because
of their connection with the "lost cause," furnished the building.
Visitors found each room furnished just as the original was before the death
of Mr. Davis, and most of the furniture was that used for years by the family.
The library, bedroom and dining hall were almost intact, every article of
silverware and crockery having been brought from "Beauvoir."
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