Location Information
(for the "Casa Flores")
Name:"Casa Flores" ["Delcastle"]
Address:4010 (3628) Government Street
City/County:Ocean Springs, Jackson County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1927
Architectural Styles(s):Mediterranean, Spanish, Eclectic/Composite
No. of Stories:1
Destroyed:demolished March 2007
Context/Comments
Delcastle is architectually significant in the context of Ocean Springs as a twentieth century vacation home of a New Orleans resident built on an especially palatial scale. The studied informality of its design integrates an irregular plan and such elegant features as wrought iron balconies, arched casement windows with curvilinear muntins, colored tiles, and Corinthian columns with intricately detailed capitals. The grounds of its five acre estate are landscaped in a manner consistent with the relaxed luxury of the architecture.

The house was formally determined eligible for the National Register on 20 April 1987 as part of the Ocean Springs MRA, prepared by Brian Berggren, but it was not listed due to owner objection.

The house was demolished in March 2007 after having been damaged by Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005.
Brief Description
Delcastle is a one-story, rambling stuccoed masonry house constructed in the Spanish Eclectic style. The house rests on a raised basement, and is covered by a side-gable roof clad in terra cotta tiles. The main facade faces north and is asymmetrical, with four bays divided into two blocks. The main entrance occupies the smaller, slightly recessed, one-bay wide western block. The side-lighted door is approached from the north by a monumental staircase and porch both of which are shaded by a pergola supported by Corinthian columns. The outer bays of the eastern block have paired square-headed casement openings on the basement level and paired round-arched floor length casement windows on the main floor. The latter openings have shaped muntins and are protected by wrought iron balconies. Very small paired casement windows set high into the wall of the main floor occupy the center bay of the eastern block. A wing projects southward from the rear of the entrance block and a carport occupies a section of the raised basement. This basement carport was subsequently enclosed.
Historic Information
Erected in 1927 in the Spanish Eclectic style for F.E. Lee.