Pass Christian 2025 Tour of Homes

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

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. 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. 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. 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. The current owners transformed this originally Georgian-style home into an informal, airy, coastal classic 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. 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.

Tickets to the Tour of Homes are $30 in advance, or $35 on the day of the Tour, and include the complimentary refreshments served at 765 East Scenic. Please visit the Historical Society website, www.passhistory.org, to purchase advance tickets and for more information. Sponsorship opportunities are also available for individuals and businesses.

All proceeds of the Tour of Homes support the Pass Christian Historical Society, which has helped to preserve and share the history of Pass Christian and the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1966.