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A newspaper office on Beach Boulevard that became the bay's favorite table, and the first to light its lamps again after the storm.
The Sea Coast Echo
Built in 1903. Rebuilt by hand.
The newspaper office on Beach Boulevard became the bay's favorite table, and the first to light its lamps again after the storm.
The Echo Building went up in 1903 to house the Sea Coast Echo newspaper, and it remains one of the finest examples of early 20th-century architecture on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
For decades its presses carried the news of the bay. Today its rooms carry the smell of chargrilled oysters and the sound of live music on Thursday and Friday nights.
Old Bay St. Louis, framed in the dining room.
The Echo Building today, its iron balconies facing Beach Boulevard.
After Hurricane Katrina, Ann Tidwell, her family and local residents began the long work of restoring it, reclaiming the original beaded boards and exposing the massive wooden beams.
“In 2011, we were the first to reopen on the Bay.”
Today, under the BSL Restaurant Group, the kitchen still leans on local catches, home-style dishes and the kind of hospitality the coast is known for.
Tour the RoomsBeaded boards & big beams.
Reclaimed wood, wrought iron and wide-open windows on the bay, inside and out.
One of the oldest on the water.
Dating to 1903, the Echo Building is one of the oldest buildings on Hancock County's waterfront, with the harbor and the open bay right across the street.