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BILOXI
GULFPORT & HANDSBORO
2.	LA BELLE MAISON
Bed & Breakfast Inn, Circa 1897 (National Register)
1274 Beach Blvd., Biloxi, MS 39530 Hours: 1.00 pm - 5:00 pm • Friday, March 26th Hostesses: Biloxi Garden Club • Chairman: Daline Palatto
The house was built in 1897, entirely of cypress, by Rosa and Dr. Charles Weatherby. Charles Weatherby was instrumental in the development of a portion of the west beach historical district.
All rooms are decorated in the period design and furnished with family antiques. The great halls that run the length of the house, on both floors, were once used for entertaining and also provided a natural air conditioning system.
Two great porches on the front of the house have inviting swings and large rocking chairs. The veranda overlooks the backyard flower garden and patio, which are surrounded by tall shady oaks. A spacious deck provides a place to sit, relax under the great magnolia, and enjoy the gulf breeze.
Come join us and escape to the elegance of the old antebellum south. Biloxi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have been a vacation resort area of the south for more than 100 years. Walk on the white sand beach; watch the pelicans and water birds as they fly; or just sit on the spacious porches or veranda and sip tea or a cool mint julep while you watch the boats sail by on the Gulf.
GULFPORT & HANDSBORO
Pilgrimage Chairmen
Ginger Sanders - Gulfport Garden Club Mary Frances Martin - Four Seasons Garden Club Melanie Clark - Bayou View Garden Club Lil Burnman - Handsboro Garden Club
3.	LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER
Dolan Ave., Gulfport, MS Hours: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm • Saturday, March 27th Hostesses: Four Seasons Garden Club Chairman: Mary Frances Martin.
Landscaped grounds with fabulous tree houses, vegetable and flower gardens. Tours of museum. Refreshments served from 2:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon.
4.	GRASS LAWN
720 East Beach, Gulfport, MS Hours: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • Saturday, March 27th
Special exhibits by Clayton E. Lehamn: Dollhouses, which are replicas of various Biloxi homes; displays of model ships of World War II; decoy ducks, swans, fish (lures for ice fishing).
Hostesses: Four Seasons Garden Club Chairman: Mary Frances Martin.
Grass Lawn is listed in the National Register of Historic Homes and is five years older than Harrison County and sixty-two years older than Gulfport. It was built in 1836 by Dr. and Mrs. Hiram A. Roberts of Port Gibson as a summer home to get away from the “fever”. The house is constructed of hand hewn pine and cypress timbers held together by wooden balustrades with balusters of triangular design -Grass Lawn’s trademark. These porches surround the house both upstairs and downstairs. The furnishings are of the period of the house. There will also be a display of model ships of World War II, decoy ducks, swans, and fish for ice fishing by Clayton E. Lehamn.
5. CLOWER - THORNTON NATURE AREA
Railroad Ave., Gulfport, MS (1.5 blocks east of Hewes Ave.) Hours: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Saturday, March 27th Hostesses: Gulfport Garden Club Chairman: Ginger Sanders
This Area was donated to the Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Inc. in 1986 by Mrs. Aida Clower Yates in memory of her parents, J. C. and Mary Thornton Clower. In 1994, Coffee Creek Woodlands was donated by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hutto, Sr. in memory of their family. Recently, a wetland meadow was donated by Mrs. Robert McManus. Traverse trails marked with shredded plant material, cross over a dry creek bed on a picturesque foot bridge and proceed to wetland habitats, a fern grotto and lovely white sandbars.
6.	HISTORIC HANDSBORO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1304 Pass Road, Gulfport, MS Hours: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • Saturday, March 27th Hostesses: Handsboro Garden Club. Chairman: Lil Burman.
Organized by a New Orleans Presbyterian group on November 18, 1877, the first church was destroyed by fire in 1889. The present building was constructed in 1891. Architecture'is unaltered popular, rural, vernacular form. The doors from the foyer to the sanctuary are designed as inverted crosses, or the “Cross of Peter”. On the wall above the pulpit is a hand finished Celtic Cross, beautifully constructed of solid mahogany by former member and elder Bert J. Husley, in 1959. On the east front grounds is a gazebo with a water fountain designed by architect Taylor Guild and built to withstand hurricane force winds. It is a memorial to Steve R. Wilson, Sr. and Son. Two sanctuary chandeliers and wall sconces were gifts from Dr. Emma Gay.