BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The foundation board overseeing development of a proposed Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum has voted to split the project between Dickinson and Medora.
The board approved the concept Friday at a meeting in Minneapolis. The library portion of the project is to be in Dickinson, where Dickinson State University’s Theodore Roosevelt Center is digitizing tens of thousands of Roosevelt-related documents, photographs, film clips and audio recordings.
The museum is to be in Medora, the tourist town on the outskirts of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The project has $15 million from the state of North Dakota and city of Dickinson and is launching a campaign to raise $85 million in private donations.
Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the North Dakota Badlands before becoming the country’s 26th president.
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