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Uploaded: 09/05/11 2:08 AM GMT
Chateau De Mores
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Located southwest of Medora, this site memorializes the life and activities in North Dakota of Antoine de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Mores, who arrived in 1883. Among his enterprises were a beef packing plant, a stagecoach line, a freighting company, refrigerated railway cars, cattle and sheep raising, land ownership, and a new town which he called Medora, in honor of his wife.

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::Inkeri
09/05/11 6:39 PM GMT
Lovely place.A Very Beautiful photo with Delicate light,Ted.Love it.Faved.
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.Nikoneer
09/06/11 8:08 PM GMT
This is, I believe, the guest room on the east end of the second floor. Its character is spartan because it was for guests who would bring with them only clothing and perhaps small standing photos in frames. The light is soft because it's indirect and it's coming through a gauzy sheer curtain. What you don't see in this shot is a ceramic chamber pot sitting under the far side of the bed. This photo is a good characterization of this room because the only light would have been from the single window and the hurricane lamp on the table. I'm glad you were able to experience our most visited historic site in North Dakota, Ted. And no, despite the fact that Theodore Roosevelt had two ranches here in the badlands, the Maltese Cross Ranch and the Elkhorn Ranch, and he did attend a couple dinners hosted by the Marquis and Marquise, he never did stay in one of these guest rooms, preferring to either return home to one of his ranches or to an apartment he kept in the town of Medora, above the Ferris General Store.
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::auroraobers
09/08/11 6:11 AM GMT
This is room is beautiful!
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