The Pass Christian Historical Society is excited to announce the 2025 Tour of Homes returns on Sunday, May 4^th. Homes will be open from 2-5 pm. 

On this, the 20^th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Society invites you to come enjoy an afternoon in Pass Christian, learning about the history of our area and the remarkable recovery of our city and coast over the past two decades.

This year’s Tour features four unique Pass Christian homes, including a lovely cottage gem on historic Seal Avenue and three beautiful Scenic Drive homes spanning a century of construction.

This year’s featured homes are:

127 Seal Avenue, c. 1895, home of Louana and Ted Frois. One of a row of six cottages built by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad for its employees, this cottage also once housed the city’s telephone switchboard. Despite flooding during Hurricane Katrina, the home retains much of its original structure, thanks in large part to the native Mississippi cypress and pine that was used to build it 130 years ago. The home was featured in Southern Living magazine in 2020 as a perfect example of the “casual elegance of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.”

513 East Scenic Drive, c. 1880-1910. Home of Ashley and Chris Bass. Few beachfront homes survived Hurricane Katrina west of this local treasure, which is now the only remaining example of a late nineteenth-century Swiss Chalet-style bungalow on the Coast. Built by prominent Pass Christian builder Frank Wittmann, Sr. in 1910, with the garconniere dating back to 1890. Day of Tour tickets will only be sold here and at the Society headquarters.

765 East Scenic Drive, 1972 and 2008. Home of Carroll and Dale Mathews. The Mathews transformed this originally Georgian-style home into an informal, airy, coastal classic after Hurricane Katrina by adding wonderfully deep and extensive porches, replacing windows with French doors, and through numerous other thoughtful details. Guests will enjoy the Society’s traditional Tour Tea on the lovely porches here. 

925 East Scenic Drive, c. 1978. Home of Cindy Walker and Dave Dennis. We welcome this lovely home, which offers sweeping views of the Mississippi Sound from nearly every angle, to the Tour for the first time. This property, which sits on approximately an acre stretching from Scenic Drive to Second Street, was originally a part of the old Eslick estate before it was subdivided in the late 1970s. The home was remodeled after Katrina, and the more traditional front façade added at that time.

Patron, Sponsor and Ticket information will be available soon!