Tullis-Toledano House

Christoval Toledano, a New Orleans sugar and cotton broker of Spanish descent, built the red-brick house in 1856 for his second wife, Matilda Pradat, using bricks fired at a Biloxi brickyard. Garner Tullis, president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, bought it as a summer home in 1939. After Camille damaged it in 1969 the family sold to Biloxi in 1975, and the city restored it as a museum and community center for thirty years. In August 2005 a casino barge floated ashore and crushed it, along with the old Councilor Oak beside it.

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 — 0.6 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 — 1.9 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 — 1.9 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

• Tivoli Hotel — 0.2 mi
• Birthplace of Barq's — 0.6 mi
• Slavic Benevolent Association — 0.6 mi
• Debuys-Hermann-Keller House — 0.7 mi