Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library

Project activities will involve retaining Beauvoir's full-time Curator of Collections and two part-time Curator Assistants so that they may continue their work salvaging, identifying, photographing and logging in artifacts recovered from Hurricane Katrina. The former Confederate Veterans Hospital Building, which housed the Soldiers Museum, was completely destroyed by the August 29, 2005 hurricane and the first floor of the Presidential Library, where the extensive collection of Jefferson Davis artifacts was exhibited, was destroyed by the +30 foot high storm surge. As one of the first steps in Beauvoir's rebuilding effort, this Museums for America project includes planning and developing schematics for a new museum and library building to house all salvaged artifacts, the archives and research library.