This was the retirement home of Jefferson Davis, where he resided from 1877 until his death in 1889. The house was seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005, but was subsequently restored. Beauvoir was listed on the National Register on 3 September 1971, and it was designated a National Historic Landmark on 7 November 1973. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 24 October 1985. The house and its history are addressed in the booklet "Beauvoir: A Walk Through History" by James West Thompson (1988). It is included in the books "Shrines to Yesterday" (1968), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp. 93-95), "The Buildings of Biloxi" (1976, 2000, and 2010), "Great Houses of Mississippi" (2004) (pp.44-47), "The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast" (2004) (pp. 87-88), "Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South" (2018) (pp. 62-72), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (pp. 353-354, GC36). [HABS: MS-12 (1936)] |