This rare beachfront survivor of Hurricane Katrina’s eighteen-foot storm surge in Pascagoula is associated locally with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote about “Pascagoula’s sunny bay” in his poem “The Building of the Ship” (1870). The monumental Greek Revival house is raised on tall square brick piers allowing breezes and high water to pass through. Reconstructed split stairs rise to a full-width flat-roofed gallery with a pair of Corinthian columns and piers at the projecting central bay and a cast-iron Greek-key balustrade. Beveled wooden siding imitating rusticated stone forms the front wall, and the floor-length windows in the two front parlors open onto the gallery. Built for slave-trader Daniel Smith Graham of New Orleans, the house became a company guest house for Ingalls Shipbuilding Company around 1940. In the early 1990s, it faced demolition until local attorney Richard Scruggs bought and restored it.