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Rails, Ranching and Riches: The Marquis de Mores in Dakota
Permanent Exhibit

This exhibit at the site’s interpretive center tells the story of the Marquis de Mores (1858-1896), a French nobleman and entrepreneur who, from 1883 to 1886, ran a cutting-edge meatpacking plant and other businesses in the town he named after his wife, Medora. His family’s 26-room summer home includes thousands of original artifacts. Featured is a smaller-scale refrigerator car, along with the Deadwood, an original stagecoach from the Marquis’s Deadwood and Medora Stage and Forwarding Company.

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Prototype Experience
Temporary Exhibit

Five students and one male adult gather around a book case with an interactive Theodore Roosevelt exhibit in it.

The exhibit includes an interactive experience, titled the Cabinet of Curiosities, which is placed alongside a Roosevelt Family portrait wall with photographs that come to life to share Theodore Roosevelt's family story. The exhibit also features a replica train car platform, donated by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, from the likes of which T.R. gave many "whistle stop" political speeches across the nation.

This prototype was built to test how storytelling and experience can work together. This exhibit explores TR's childhood and should take approximately 12 minutes.

Chateau de Mores State Historic Site Orientation Film

Chateau Orientation Film

Take this opportunity to get a brief glimpse of the historic 26-room hunting cabin that is now known as the Chateau de Mores. Built on a bluff overlooking the town of Medora, find out more about why it was built and the grand visions that the Marquis de Mores had for Dakota Territory.

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Address:
3426 Chateau Road
Medora, ND 58645
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Winter Hours (Tuesday of Labor Day Weekend-Thursday of Memorial Day Weekend):
Interpretive Center & Chateau (weather permitting): Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. MT (last tickets sold at 4 p.m.)
Chimney Park and DeMores Memorial Park: Open

Summer Hours (Friday of Memorial Day Weekend-Labor Day):
Daily, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. MT

Contact Chateau de Mores:
phone: 701.623.4355
email: shschateau@nd.gov

Contact SHSND:
phone: 701.328.2666
email: history@nd.gov