Chateau de Mores State Historic Site, North Dakota, United States
4.5 (188 reviews) Monday: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #3 in Medora Historic Sites • History Museums
Very good museum and home, but know the facts about the man it honors
Summer Hours: 8:30am - 5:30pm MST, Daily. Last tickets sold at 4:30pm MST. Covers entry to the Interpretive Center and Chateau de Morès. Off-Season Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm MST, Tuesday-Saturday. Last tickets sold at 4:00pm MST. Covers entry to Interpretive Center. Located SW of Medora, the site interprets the North Dakota ambitions of Antoine de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Morès, who arrived in 1883. His enterprises included a beef packing plant, stagecoach line, freighting company, refrigerated railway cars, cattle, and sheep raising, land ownership, and a new town named Medora in honor of his wife.
Address
3426 Chateau Road, Medora, ND 58645
Mobile
Website
http://www.history.nd.gov/historicsites/chateau
Working hours
Monday : 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday : 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday : 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday : 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday : 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday : 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday : 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Current local date and time now
Monday, May 06, 2024, 17:38
User Ratings
4.5 based on (188 reviews)
Reviews
-
5Davigeta 5:00 PM Aug 12, 2021
Very good museum and home, but know the facts about the man it honors
The museum and the home are 0.4 mile apart from one another. The museum has a great deal of information about the man and his wife. The home has LOTS of pieces original to the late 19th century home. It is a very nice place to visit, and the home has guides in it to assist you. Worth seeing. However, know the following: the museum honors him for founding the town of Medora, named after his wife. It also discusses his failed attempts to make it in the stagecoach business and meat industry. However, it does not discuss his rabid anti-semitism. He blamed Jews for the demise of his meat business, joined an anti-semitic group in France, and was killed in North Africa (possibly with the cooperation of the French government) by Tuareg "guides." Check Wikipedia. Hopefully, in the future some of the above will be mentioned in the museum.
-
4RYC88 5:00 PM Aug 7, 2021
Interesting to learn the history of the area and residents
The museum has a great overview of Mores and his life and his serial entrepreneurship. The house is super interesting because of the fact that almost 90% of the furnishings and contents are from when Mores and his wife lived there. So, it is truly like walking into the past. It's not fancy, but the architecture is interesting and there is a lot of information about the town of Medora and about life in the midwest in the late 1800's. It's something different to see when you are out doing all the parks and nature hikes.
