Pleasant Reed House
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The Pleasant Reed House was a sidehall shotgun house in Biloxi, Mississippi on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by Pleasant Reed (1854-1932), a former slave on a Mississippi farm who moved with his family to coastal Biloxi after the American Civil War. Reed as a freedman worked as a laborer and carpenter and earned the money to build his own house for his rapidly growing family.
The house was saved by the Biloxi chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and added to the National Register in 1978. In 2003, the House was moved to the new Frank Gehry-designed campus of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, where it was restored and opened to the public for tours.
On August 29, 2005, the House was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. However, the original archival materials and photographs were saved by museum curators. The museum's Board of Trustees has voted to rebuild the House as the new campus reconstruction begins in approximately 2007.
