FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Delores Linn
September 2, 2011
(701) 623-4355
MEDORA – Beginning Friday, September 16, visitor hours will change at the Chateau de Mores State Historic Site Interpretive Center in Medora. At that time, the interpretive center’s winter schedule will take effect.
The rest of the Chateau de Mores site, including the 26-room, two-story Chateau facility, will be closed from September 16 through May 15. The site, including the interpretive center, is managed by the state’s history agency, the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
The new interpretive center, which opened in April 2008, is open year-round. It is currently operating on its summer schedule, which remains in effect through September 15. Summer schedule hours are daily from 8:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Mountain Time. Winter hours, in place from September 16 through May 15, will be Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Time.
The interpretive center is part of the 128-acre state historic site that interprets the enterprises of the Marquis de Mores, the French nobleman and entrepreneur who in the 1880s ran a cutting-edge meatpacking plant in Medora, the town he founded and named after his wife.
Visitors to the interpretive center will see the permanent exhibit, Rails, Ranching and Riches: The Marquis de Mores in Dakota, which tells the story of the Marquis de Mores (1858-96). 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.
Also available for viewing is North Dakota Remembers World War II, presenting stories of North Dakotans from all branches of the armed forces and their experiences worldwide. This exhibit features a selection of the more than 1,200 interviews collected through the North Dakota Veterans History Project coordinated by the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The exhibit also features World War II-era uniforms, medals, photographs and other artifacts related to personal experiences in the war.
Another exhibit is Great Photographs of World War II, a display of photographs taken by combat photographers from the Office of War Information and all branches of the U.S. military. This exhibit documents some of the experiences of veterans of World War II. They were compiled by the Folmer Graflex Corporation in Rochester, New York, manufacturer of the Graflex camera equipment used by combat photographers and in military aircraft.
Both exhibits will be at the interpretive center through October 2012.
The Chateau de Mores State Historic Site Interpretive Center is closed only on New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Admission is $7 per adult, $3 per child ages 6-15, and children 5 and under are admitted free.
Free admission to all sites administered by the State Historical Society of North Dakota (SHSND) is one of the many benefits for members of the SHSND Foundation. Others include a 15 percent discount on museum store purchases, and the quarterly publications North Dakota History and Plains Talk. To become a member, call the Foundation at (701) 222-1966 or visit the website at www.statehistoricalfoundation.com.
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