Location Information
(for the "Bellevue")
Name:"Bellevue" ["Longfellow House" (Pollack House - HABS)]
Address:3401 Beach Boulevard
City/County:Pascagoula, Jackson County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:c.1850
Architectural Styles(s):Greek Revival
No. of Stories:1.5
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:12 Dec 2002
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Easement Information
Date Signed:05-23-2007
Expires:05-23-2032
Easement Type:Preservation/Maintenance
Book/Vol. No.:Book 1502 Pg. 391-403
Context/Comments
"Bellevue" is significant as an example of a 'raised cottage,' a house-form that was widely adopted in the coastal areas of the south during the antebellum period. It is one of the most prominent surviving examples of this form along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

This house was listed on the National Register on 12 December 2002.

It is included in "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (p. 101), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (pp. 146-147), "Must See Mississippi" (2007) (pp. 77-79), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 364, GC49).

[HABS: MS-20 (1936)].
Brief Description
1.5 story, wood-frame Greek Revival with center-hall plan on elevated masonry foundation. House is clad in rusticated wood clapboards. Side-gable roof covered with asphalt shingles. Full-width, projecting porch with shed roof supported by eight columns: three box columns flanking two central Corinthian columns with prominent entasis. Central entry is recessed with sidelights and transom. Windows are 6/12 and 6/6 wood DHS, with working shutters. There are three gablet dormers, each with a 6/6 wood DHS. Corbelled end chimneys project from the roof just below the ridgeline on both the east and west elevations.
Historic Information
The house was built for Captain Daniel Smith Graham of New Orleans. It was acquired by Mr. & Mrs. W.A. Pollock in 1902, and it was the Pollocks who dubbed the house 'Bellevue.' Their heirs sold the house in 1938 to Mayor Frank S. Canty, who in turn sold the house in 1941 to Robert I. Ingalls, owner of the Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. The Ingalls turned the house into a resort for use by guests of the company. From the 1940s to the 1970s the house was used as a resort hotel, and underwent numerous alterations and additions. The house was restored to its original appearance between 1993 and 1997.