Old Brick House

John Henley, a former sheriff and mayor of Biloxi, built this modest family house around 1850 on ground first granted by the Spanish, with heart-pine floors and three layers of brick in the outer walls. That brick carried it through a century and a half of storms, but by the mid-1950s it stood neglected until Biloxi's garden clubs salvaged it and the city took it over as a museum and gathering place. Katrina put seven feet of water through it in 2005. After restoration it was rededicated in 2011, one of only two antebellum homes still standing in Biloxi.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 1.4 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 — 1.6 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 — 1.6 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.
• Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum — 1.9 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

• Tyrone's Barber and Beauty Shop — 0.7 mi
• Biloxi Blues — 0.7 mi
• Birthplace of Barq's — 1.1 mi
• Cathedral of the Nativity (B.V.M.) — 1.1 mi