The Magnolia Hotel

John Hahn, who ran a coffeehouse in New Orleans, had the hotel built in 1847. He died the next year, and his wife kept it open for New Orleans guests when Biloxi was a favored resort, one of the Gulf Coast's Six Sisters. After the Civil War it filled with northern winter guests, and Hahn's descendants ran it until World War II closed it. Camille damaged it in 1969; in 1972 Biloxi bought it and moved it about a hundred yards north to higher ground, facing east. It now houses the city's Mardi Gras museum.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biloxi Lighthouse — 0.7 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.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 0.7 mi
  The beachfront parking lot beside the Biloxi Lighthouse where state markers recall the 1959 and 1960 wade-ins that opened Mississippi's public beaches to Black residents.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 1.0 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.
• Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum — 1.8 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.

More markers nearby

• Cathedral of the Nativity (B.V.M.) — 0.2 mi
• Chris LeDoux — 0.2 mi
• Biloxi — 0.3 mi
• Church of the Redeemer — 0.4 mi