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1890
Deeds - to Mrs. Allen 6/6/1890 (VF "Hotel")
1892
Daily Picayune July 3, 1892 advmt under " Summer Resorts" began June 19 on Sunday for one month - Bay St. Louis Hotel on the beach, Miss. First class accommodations for family, at Reasonable prices. Mrs. A. Allen, Proprietress. (Source unknown)
Bay St. Louis Hotel - The Light Fantastic. Never did a lovelier night usher in a more successful and enjoyable affair than the ball given on Saturday night by the Bay St. Louis Hotel and its guests. Mrs. Allen, the warm-hearted and hospitable hostess spared no pains in perfecting all arrangements for the grand event, and to say the least of this good lady's efforts, it can truly be said that she succeeded admirable in every way.
The lovely and spacious dining room presented a magnificent spectacle with such a brilliant array of youthful beauty and gallantry. At about 10:30 o'clock the trippers of the light fantastic repaired in the broad gallery and while the gulf breezes stole upon the festive scene, ice cream and cake was partaken of. Dancing was soon resumed until about midnight when only sweet recollections of the ball at the Bay St. Louis Hotel was left to be enjoyed. For this occasion the grounds were superbly decorated with Chinese lanterns. (SCE 8/20/1892)
Bay St. Louis Hotel and Cottages, on the beach. Open the Year Round. This commodious and elegantly refitted hotel is delightfully situated on the Mexic waters, and affords the most comfortable rooms with unsurpassable, splendid drives, boating, fishing, bathing, etc. Families and commercials. Tourists will find it to their advantage to apply to Mrs. A. Allen, Proprietress, Bay St. Louis, Ms. (Advertisement SCE 8/6/1892 thru 9/17/1892)
Bay St. Louis Hotel on the beach, Miss. First class accommodations for family, at Reasonable prices. Mrs. A. Allen, Proprietress (Daily Picayune advertisement under "Summer Resorts" began June 19 on Sunday for one month)
We were told the other evening that the brothers of St. Stanislaus College are contemplating of purchasing the Bay St. Louis Hotel and erect an elegant new college building. If this is true it will mean a decided improvement for our city. (SCE 9/17/1892)
Bay St. Louis Hotel - Mr. Wm. P. Hornbeck, wife and two charming children, of Chicago, are among our Northern visitors, and are the guests of the Bay St. Louis Hotel. (SCE 12/03/1892)
1893
Lowenthal, Mr. J., has resigned the clerkship of the Crescent Hotel and accepted that of the popular Bay St. Louis Hotel, kept by Mrs. A. Allen. (SCE 04/01/1893)
Allen, Mrs. Annie, popular and hospitable manager of the Bay St. Louis Hotel, entertains a large number of guests. (SCE 04/15/1893)
Bay St. Louis Hotel - see BSL, City of (article SCE 5/20/1893)
THE BAY SAINT LOUIS HOTEL and all must feel as we did, a pleasure to see the well kept grounds and many cottages scattered about, so that you may go into your apartment and feel perfectly at home without the fatigue one must feel after climbing long flights of stairs. The grounds here have a lake front of 126 feet extending back 485 feet, and it is located on the corner of the two principal streets of the city, in close proximity to the post office and near the business center of the town.
This hotel is owned and managed by Mrs. Anna Allen, a lady who has had many years of experience as hostess, and she has since locating here demonstrated her ability to maintain this as a leading house by the perfection of her manner in catering to the wants, the desires, the expectations and whims of the varying tastes of a discriminating public. The hotels in this city are especially good. It is said that American hotels are the best in the world and surely here is one of the best places in America for the maintenance of a good house.
The hotel is as we said before, laid out in cottages. Nine of these cottages are used as sleeping rooms, and the traveler cannot fail to enjoy a good rest. The cottage containing the dining room and parlor is away from all the sleeping rooms as well as the kitchen. This hotel has not only the reputation of setting a good table, all nice and clean, plenty of variety and the best of everything. The surroundings, too, are very beautiful and large shade trees are found beside the mulberry, orange, peach and pear trees, and all are underlaid with a carpet of green. It is very near bathing and boating and the house affords free bath houses and elegant fishing stands to its guests, believing they deserve all the luxuries of life. (SCE 05/20/1893)
Allen, Mrs. Annie, the charming and attractive hostess of the Bay St. Louis Hotel, has already secured services for the re-building of the hotel beach front. Mrs. Allen is a woman of a pure business character and in a businesslike way is one of the first property holders to begin work in blotting away all ruins of the storm. (SCE 11-4-1893)
Bay St. Louis Hotel recently registered the following named guests: Mrs. Waite, Willie Waite, C. Ivy, New Orleans; M. F. Baxter, C. R. Russ, Simon Favre, Pearlington; A. J. Hyde, Meridian, Miss.; William M. Ryan, Mobile; C. S. Judson, H. L. Kerr, New Orleans; T. M. Favre, W. S. Stocker, Pearlington; B. Ross, Ralph Ross, Val Fabian, H. L. Jamison, F. W. Levy, Tneo Day, F. Grahan, Mrs. Emma Molligan, T. Clark, New Orleans; W. M. Rogers, New York; Ike Fleming, Chicago, Ills.; Morris Goldstein, S. Blanchard, New Orleans. Mrs. Lynch, Morgan City. (SCE 114-1893)
Allen, Mrs. Annie, the popular hostess of the Bay St. Louis Hotel, returned on Saturday evening from a several days' visit to the Crescent City. (SCE 11-11-1893)
Hotel, Bay St. Louis, welcomed the following visitors: John O'Pamul, St. Louis, Mo.; J. E. Roger, Mobile, Ala.; S. M. Know, Amesburg, Mass.; Jules Deluzain, New Orleans; S. J. Webb, St. Louis, Mo.; S. Gerald Conway, Dayton, Ohio; Miss Henrietta M. Brown, St. Louis; J. S. Brown, St. Louis; A. Choperon, New Orleans. (SCE 12/16/1893) 1894
It would be hard indeed for a person to imagine a more perfect and ideal summer resort hotel, than the one owned and conducted by Mrs. Annie Allen at Bay St. Louis at which we were staying when this chapter was written. The hotel is arranged on the principle of a main house with a number of detached cottages surrounding it on all sides.
The estate comprising several acres is situated on the beach drive. This hotel is right in the centre of the more thickly settled portion of Bay St. Louis. There is an extensive and well kept lawn in front, well shaded by large and ornamented trees, from which, while reclining at ease in the swings or hammocks, one may get a fine view of the Gulf.
Mrs. Allen the proprietress, has the faculty of keeping a hotel, down to a fine art and the extreme neatness and cleanliness of everything connected with the place, is admired and commented on by every one who goes there. Mrs. Allen says that she has never lost a customer since she has been in business at the Bay.
The hotel which consists of eleven distinct buildings built on the cottage plan are furnished magnificently and at the same time, in the best of taste. It is safe to say that the furniture of this house is not excelled in any of the hosteleries of the State of Mississippi.
Mrs. Allen purchased this place in May 1890 (the deed says 6/6/90 CHG) after having conducted a hotel in New Orleans for twenty three years previously.
Since buying, she has built cottages, summer houses, sheds, out-houses, etc., besides laying Shillinger cement walks and in fact modeling the place generally, until at the present time it would scarcely be recognized by its former owners. Within the past few years, Mrs. Allen has had several tempting offers from prospective purchasers, but as she has gone to so much expense and pains to improve the estate and as she intends to make Bay St. Louis her home in the future, she could not be prevailed upon to sell.