Carter-Calloway House

The Carter-Calloway House stood out in a Black neighborhood of small, plain houses beside the Louisville and Nashville tracks, where several older homes had housed railroad workers. A 1986 state survey says it was built in 1906 or 1907 for a man known only as Mr. Carter, reportedly a cook on the excursion train from New Orleans. Its two-story side bays give it a nautical look: the north bay projects like a ship's bow and the semicircular south bay like a stern. The two-tier gallery is unique in Ocean Springs today, and locals take pride in the house.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Walter Anderson Museum of Art — 0.3 mi
  A museum in downtown Ocean Springs built around the artist who rowed to Horn Island to paint, with his 1952 murals of Iberville's 1699 landing and the Seven Climates of the town.
• Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum — 2.5 mi
  A Point Cadet museum on Biloxi's oyster, shrimp and schooner past, from the packing houses and the shrimpers' unions to the Vietnamese families who rebuilt the industry.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 3.2 mi
  Frank Gehry's pavilions on the Biloxi waterfront, built around the pottery of George Ohr, the self-styled Mad Potter, and the rebuilt Pleasant Reed House.
• Biloxi Lighthouse — 4.8 mi
  A cast-iron tower lit in 1848 on the Biloxi beachfront, kept by women for most of its first century and still in service after Camille and Katrina.

More markers nearby

• Marble Springs — 0.2 mi
• Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center — 0.2 mi
• Ocean Springs — 0.7 mi
• Charnley-Norwood House (Bon Silene) — 1.7 mi