Clay and 12th Sts., Richmond (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Richmond.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000924.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Second White House of the Confederacy is a historic house located in the Court End neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1818, it served as the main executive residence of the sole President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, from August 1861 until April 1865. It currently sits on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.
The Jefferson Davis Executive Mansion was owned by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society from 1894 until 2014, when the Museum of the Confederacy merged with the American Civil War Center. The merged entity is now the American Civil War Museum. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679141