R.A. Farnsworth Summer House

R. A. Farnsworth, a Kentucky native, bought the Hunter-Behn Lumber Company and renamed it for himself, yet by 1991 neither the mill nor his Queen Anne house in town survived, leaving the beach house as the only building tied to him. Its plan, one room deep with a wraparound gallery, belongs to a tradition going back at least to the 1830s, seen in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and early Natchez houses. Local mills turned its porch columns. After the 1947 hurricane the open porch behind the five front rooms was enclosed, and Katrina washed the house away in 2005.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Round Island Lighthouse at Lighthouse Park — 1.9 mi
  What survives of the 1832 Round Island light, moved to the foot of the Pascagoula River bridge, with a free walking pathway through nine eras of Pascagoula history.
• LaPointe-Krebs House (Old Spanish Fort) — 2.5 mi
  The oldest standing structure in Mississippi, a French colonial plantation house in Pascagoula, set on land where Pascagoula and Biloxi peoples lived before the colonists came.
• Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge — 9.5 mi
  A refuge for one of the rarest birds in North America and the wet pine savanna it needs, created in 1975 as the first refuge established under the Endangered Species Act.
• Walter Anderson Museum of Art — 17 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.

More markers nearby

• St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi
• Camp Jefferson Davis — 1.3 mi
• Pascagoula Street Railroad and Power Company — 1.9 mi
• MS Gulf Coast Blues & Heritage Festival — 2.9 mi