Historic Biloxi Walking Tour: The Clemens House and Scherer House

In our new segment ‘Live Local’ News 25’s Lorraine Weiskopf is highlighting places of interest along the Coast every Thursday.

- in our new segment "live local'- news 25's lorraine- weiskopf is highlighting places- of interest along - the coast every thurday.- today lorraine is visiting stop- number three and four of the- walking tour with the biloxi- library historian - - lorraine weiskopf"to my - right is stop number 2 on the - walking tour, the old biloxi- library.

If you keep going down- water street you'll pass stops - and 4," - stop number 3 is the clemens- house, it's one of the earliest- houses in biloxi.

- jane shambra, historian, biloxi- library"ist got the amazing - front porch - so years ago when there was - nothing on the highway you coul- sit on the front porch- and get breezes from the gulf - and what the steamboats go by,- - - - so it must have been a great- place to live."

- its named after the clemmons- family, acquiring the house in- 1869.

- - - - descendants lived there for 90- years.- jane shambra, historian, biloxi- library"as close as we are to - the highway - and the mississippi sounds.

It- has been through not only - katrina but all the - other storms as well."- down the road from the clemmons- house is stop 4 on the- tour, the scherer house.

While- this house shares the same- resilience from storms like the- clemmons house, the design is - has - spanish influence.

This house i- also referred to as - the "old spanish house."- jane shambra, historian, biloxi- library "this house unlike the- other one is- basically of brick construction- have a little porch at the- bottom and another- - - - one at the top."- the scherer house like the- clemmons is named after a - family that lived there and bot- are listed on the national- register of historic places.

Th- two houses are located on - water street, which has its own- historical significance.- jane shambra, historian, biloxi- library "it's a very short- street but a very - safe street because it wouldn't- flood as much as the highway- would years ago.

And- were talking mid eighteen - hundred."

- - - - lorraine weiskopf "be sure to - tune in next thursday and i'll-