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Ada Villa, Bellevue Boarding, Avondale Boarding House, Bay View Boarding House and Oak Cottage, all located along Beach Boulevard (Sanborn Maps, 1893, 1898).
None of the 19th century hotels remain. Fires destroyed the Seaside Hotel, the Clifton House and
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the Pickwick Hotel in the 1880s, 1907 and 1917, respectively. The Gilmore Hotel was destroyed by fire or removed after 1944. The Bay St. Louis Hotel, which had been built in,,l 839, was gone by 1898 and St. Stanislaus College absorbed its property (Sanborn Maps, 1893, .1898, Scharff, 1999). Of the boarding houses named above, the Bay View Boarding House (former 1 y known as the Gex-Dickinson House and Carroll Plantation) survives as a private residence at 224 North Beach Boulevard. The other Beach Boulevard boarding houses named above have not survived.
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The prosperity of Bay St. Louis was also revealed in the elaborate residences of its business \ owners. Among these were the Queen Anne style home of rherchant W.A. McDonald, built in
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1889 and located at 502 North Beach Boulevard, and the Center Hall dwelling of druggist L.A.
De Montluzin, built ca. 1890 and located at 208 North Beach Boulevard. Both of these houses
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were razed after damage from Hurricane Katrina. Houses from this era that remain include a Colonial Revival style house built in 1890 and located at 242 St. Charles Street (individually listed on the NRHP) and the home of Alphonse Kergosien, a Colonial Revival style dwelling, built ca. 1895 and located at 134 Carroll Avfenue.	^	'% , ?
'Queen Anne st^ehpttfe^H889) of merchant W^i. McDonald at 502 North Beach Boulevard, Bay St. Louis in 1979 (left) (MDAHphohxbyA$ele Cramer). W.A/McDonald House after Katrina (right) (ZJSACEphoto 2006).
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