First White House of the Confederacy, Historic residence in Montgomery, United States.

The First White House of the Confederacy is a two-story wooden frame house in Montgomery, Alabama, built in the Italianate style. Its white weatherboarded facade has five bays, dark green shutters, and a heavy bracketed cornice with a Liberty cap motif around the hipped roof. A one-story porch with slender columns and a balustrade spans the front, and the base is red brick with lattice panels.

Jefferson Davis and his family lived in the house from February to May 1861, when Montgomery served as the seat of government. Later the capital moved to Richmond in Virginia, and the building lost its official role.

The name refers to the brief period when the building served as an executive residence before the capital moved farther east. Visitors today see rooms furnished with objects that show domestic life of a family in the mid-19th century.

The museum opens on weekdays and most Saturdays, offering visitors free entry for self-guided tours. Rooms are equipped with signs that provide background on the displayed objects.

The house was moved whole in 1919 to 644 Washington Street, not Washington Avenue, after the White House Association of Alabama bought it with $25,000 from the state legislature; the original Bibb and Lee Streets lot was wanted for a gas station. The 1921 reopening made it a museum.