On This Day In Alabama History: Confederate Congress Ok’d Lease Of Mansion

Alabama News Center | February 21, 2017 @ 4:30 am

By Graydon Rust
Alabama 200

February 21, 1861

The Provisional Confederate Congress authorized the lease of an executive mansion in Montgomery for $5,000 a year. Built in the Federal style between 1832 and 1835, the First White House of the Confederacy served as the residence of Jefferson Davis for three months while Montgomery was the Confederate capital. In 1900, the newly founded White House Association of Alabama began its more than 20-year struggle to save the building that culminated with a restoration and relocation in 1921. The house now serves as a museum and exhibits Civil War artifacts and former possessions of the Davis family.

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