Mississippi pavilion (Beauvoir)

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A replica of the home of Jefferson Davis, in which he wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy"

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MISSISSIPPI BUILDING

“Beauvoir,” the last home of Jefferson Davis, is reproduced at the World’s Fair with all of the surrounding beauty that marks the original at Biloxi, the great forest trees of the Plateau of States forming a setting resembling the familiar country place. The structure faces Commonwealth boulevard and has for near 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 has 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,” furnish the building. Visitors find 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 are almost intact, every article of silverware and crockery having been brought from “Beauvoir.”