White House Hotel

Judge Walter White built the house in 1893, and his wife, Cora, began taking boarders around 1910. She kept adding houses until seven stood joined by a colonnade of Corinthian columns, then hired Mobile architect George B. Rogers for annexes in 1923 and 1927. A forty-foot lighted fountain went in on the lawn in 1926. After Cora died in 1934, Jimmie Love Jr., who also owned WLOX, ran the hotel and marketed it in tandem with the Buena Vista; the Love family sold in 1971 after Camille. It outlasted both Camille and Katrina.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biloxi Lighthouse — 0.6 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 — 0.6 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.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 2.3 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 — 3.1 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

• Father Ryan House — steps away
• Moran Site — 0.5 mi
• Cathedral of the Nativity (B.V.M.) — 1.2 mi
• The Magnolia Hotel — 1.3 mi