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Walter Place, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is a truly unique twist on antebellum Greek Revival style in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Harvey Washington Walter, who made a fortune building the Mississippi Central Railroad, asked the town's architect, Spires Boling, to create something different from other grand mansions in the area. The center of the house is classic Greek Revival but Boling added massive medieval Gothic towers with castellated battlements to each end of the house. The home, constructed in 1859, was among the last great mansions built before the Civil War. During the Civil War, general and future president Ulysses S. Grant moved his wife Julia into the home. The mansion later became a hospital for victims of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. The home was later restored and reflects the styles of its original era.

The home on 15 acres includes the huge columned brick main house as well as two architecturally significant 1830s guest "cottages." In between there is a botanical park designed in 1903 by a famed landscape architect. It has hundred year old trees & hills, a pond, waterfalls and paths. This home is listed at $15 million with Dorian Bennett Sothebys.

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South Beach Biloxi

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Filed under: Estates, Luxury Travel & Hotels

A reader alerted me to another sign of the growing push to turn Biloxi, Mississippi into a resort destination. The area, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, is now the site of many resorts and casinos, both rebuilds and new projects. South Beach Biloxi is planned to be two towers for a total of 326 units with the plan to possibly expand the development to multiple beachfront towers. The developer behind the project is Ray Wooldrige who is a former part owner of the New Orleans Hornets basketball team and has a vision of turning Biloxi into a more prosperous tourist destination.

The first tower will be 94 studio, one-bedroom and two bedroom units with private balconies, floor to ceiling windows and luxury interior finishes. The There will also be an amenity floor with a spa, fitness room, indoor pool, outdoor pool, cafe & club room. The units are fairly small (the two bedroom is 1141 square feet and the studio has no kitchen only a wet bar) but they are designed to be vacation homes.

[Thanks, Steven]

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Trump Plans A Mississippi Casino

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It looks like the latest Trump adventure will be another casino. Trump Entertainment has signed a letter of intent with Diamondhead Casino Corp. for a joint venture to create a casino resort in Diamondhead, Mississippi. Before Hurricane Katrina, casinos could only built on water but a new law allows them to be built on land within 800 feet of certain bodies of water. This resort would be built on land owned by Mississippi Gaming Corporation. The desirable property fronts Interstate 10 and the Bay of St. Louis.

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