Proposed Teddy Roosevelt library to be in Dickinson, Medora

BISMARCK, N.D. – 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.