Charnley-Norwood House (Bon Silene)

Louis Sullivan designed the cottage in 1890 for his friend James Charnley, a Chicago lumberman, and wrote that he drew it himself that March; a local carpenter built it. Frank Lloyd Wright was a draftsman in Sullivan's office then, but there is little evidence he had a hand in the design, and he never visited the site. In 1895 Frederick Norwood bought the property and named it Bon Silene for his wife's roses. The main house burned in 1897 and Sullivan rebuilt it. Katrina destroyed the cottage in 2005, and the state bought the property in 2011.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Walter Anderson Museum of Art — 1.6 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 — 3.0 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 — 3.8 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 — 5.5 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

• Ocean Springs — 1.5 mi
• Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center — 1.5 mi
• Carter-Calloway House — 1.7 mi
• Marble Springs — 1.9 mi