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4B-THE SEA COAST ECHO—THURSDAY, MARCH 6,1986
TOUR HIGHLIGHT—Among the highlights on the Bay-Waveland Garden	views of the Mississippi Sound from its broad gallery, tall windows and
Club’s 1986 Bay St. Louis Tour to be conducted Thursday, March 27 in con-	spacious grounds which feature a handsome fountain and formal rose
junction with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Council of Garden Clubs 39th Annual	garden. A central hallway includes gracefully curved stairway. Present
Spring Pilgrimage is the Beachwood Hall mansion at 806 S. Beach	owners have furnished the rooms with heirlooms, Venetian crystal and
Boulevard. Home of Messrs. Charles Gray and James Plauche, the struc-	bronze dore chandeliers, Louis XVI parlor furniture and bric-a-brac they
ture was probably built in the early 1850s and remodeled to its current Greek	have collected in travels around the world. The Gray-Plauche residence will
Revival style in the late 1850s or early 1860s, according to Bay St. Louis ar-	be open during the tour from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. when refreshments will be
chitectural historian Fred Wagner. Beachwood Hall commands excellent	served. (Bay-Waveland Garden Clab photo)
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