Tivoli Hotel

Built in 1926 and 1927 as a six-story brick hotel with sixty-four rooms, the Tivoli kept slot machines in its lobby through the 1930s, 40s and 50s, when gambling was an accepted part of coast tourism. In the early 1950s an Arkansas businessman, A. B. Minor, bought it and needed a manager; Mary Mahoney, who later opened the Old French House restaurant, learned the hospitality trade there. It became the Trade Winds, then transient apartments. Katrina's surge pushed a casino barge into the building in 2005, and it was demolished in May 2006.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — steps away
  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 — 0.8 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.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 1.7 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.
• Biloxi Lighthouse — 1.7 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.

More markers nearby

• Tullis-Toledano House — 0.2 mi
• Birthplace of Barq's — 0.4 mi
• Debuys-Hermann-Keller House — 0.5 mi
• Vance-Gillis House — 0.5 mi