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 1979. 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, and the museum's Board of Trustees voted to rebuild the Pleasant Reed House. The Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center, a replica of the original house, opened to the public on September 29, 2008. The center features exhibits on local African American history. References External links Ohr-O'Keefe Museum page on the Pleasant Reed House City of Biloxi page on the Pleasant Reed House Houses in Harrison County, Mississippi Museums in Harrison County, Mississippi African-American museums in Mississippi Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Mississippi Former National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi