Old Spanish Fort Museum

This place is on private property. Listing for informational purposes only. Please do not visit without express permission from the land owner.

La Pointe-Krebs House, located in Pascagoula, is the oldest standing structure in the state of Mississippi.

Built sometime between 1772 and 1780, it combines two unusual construction styles – tabby and bousillage.The original two-room structure has thick walls of oyster-shell concrete (called tabby). However, around 1820, a third room was added to one end. Its walls were made in the traditional French colombage style – mud and Spanish moss (a mixture called bousillage) were used to fill in the spaces between wooden uprights. The tabby and bousillage both contain animal bones and pieces of pottery made by the Pascagoula Indians who occupied the site until about 1750.

Today the house stands on the edge of the Pascagoula River in a park operated by the Jackson County Historical Society. A grant from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History is currently being used to renovate this historic building from the damages caused by Hurricane Katrina, and is aimed at stabilizing, rehabilitating and restoring the La Pointe-Krebs House.