Pass Christian Historic District This book devotes attention to the
city's colorful past in enumerating the heyday of elaborate and
grandiose hotels as well as recalling the beautiful mansions which
have been lost forever. All of which are shown with undistributed
photographs, complete with well researched historical data. Ellis
describes the Miramar Nursing home on Scenic Drive as the most
historically active site in the early days of the Pass. It was the
first elaborate "Watering Hole" between the New Orleans and Mobile
schooner and steamboat run. The Pass Christian Hotel was built just
a few years following the construction of the Pass Lighthouse.
While en route to Washington D.C. for his presidential
inauguration, Gen. Zachary Taylor was celebrated at the hotel with
a grand ball in his honor. It was there that the Southern Yacht
Club was formed, becoming the second such club in the United
States. Following the Civil War, the hotel burned down and went
through a number of hotel changes, including the Magnolia Hotel
which also burned down in 1915, and was replaced by the Miramar
Hotel, which changed names several times afterward. The book's,
pages are filled with photographs, in color, of every home listed
in the National Registry of Historic Places - which includes nearly
every home on Scenic Drive. Each structure is architecturally
described, including construction and renovation dates, names of
builders, and listings of most former owners and/or tenants. Where
known, there are many anecdotal memories recalled such as where
Cole Porter stayed as a boy, the "Union Quarters," the "Bed-Sheet
Surrender," the first automobile in the Pass, where John L.
Sullivan stayed while training in the Pass for the last bare
knuckle fight, presidential visits, and many more such stories.
Uniquely, the book also lists names, ages, and locations for most
of the Registered Live Oak trees that are strewn along the scenic
drive-by while viewing the mansions and cottages. Many of these
homes date to the Antebellum period. Not left out, is the historic
development of many of the streets as described within the pages.
Besides a thumbnail historic sketch of Pass Christian, Ellis touts
the pertinent organizations that promote the heritage and
preservation of the Pass. The book is dedicated to Billy Bourdin
for his significant contributions for "making the book possible,"
as Ellis states, "without Billy's photographs and files - as well
as those at the courthouse, the book would be drastically
incomplete."
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