Biloxi
The White House Hotel
Walter and Cora White's Gulf hotel: standing wings from the 1920s; a new addition holds King Suite, ADA King, King Superior and Double Standard rooms.
- Built
- 1923The West Beach nomination dates the center section to 1923 and the east block to 1927 (both George B. Rogers); WLOX and the heritage area give 1927 and 1929 for the annexes. The brief's 1890 date is the Whites' arrival and early family home, not the standing hotel building.
- Style
- Spanish Colonial Revival; Neoclassical Revival
- Architect
- George B. Rogers
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Price
- $
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
Walter White, a lawyer who came to the coast in 1890, and his wife Cora built on the site of an oyster company wrecked by an 1893 hurricane, and Cora began taking boarders in 1895. Architect George B. Rogers designed the Spanish Colonial annexes of the 1920s that form today’s center and east wings. Jimmie Love Jr., later co-owner of WLOX-TV, bought the hotel in 1940. It closed in 1988 and stood empty for 26 years, and Katrina damaged it in 2005. The Lambert family restored it from 2013, reopening it on August 1, 2014.
Good to know
- No pets
- Address: 1230 Beach Blvd, Biloxi, MS 39530
Sources (4)
- https://catalog.archives.gov/medialz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MS/84002210.pdf
- https://www.wlox.com/story/17270788/the-white-house-hotel-a-short-history/
- https://www.mississippifreepress.org/the-story-of-biloxis-131-year-old-white-house-hotel-continues-to-grow/
- https://msgulfcoastheritage.ms.gov/historic/historic-homes/the-white-house-hotel/
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.