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Down South Profiles:
Hugh Turner Carr
Master Antiquarian
By Alice Bell Prindiville
The sign reads ANTIQUES and the sorcery of the word is inescapable be you that "born collector? interested in everything and anything old and historic, or the merest diletant bent only on adding a lustre mustache cup to your china cabinet. In the environs of Bay St. Louis signs bearing the mesmeric message point the way to Clermont Harbor and the display rooms and workshop of Hugh Turner Carr, dealer in antiques, antiquarian jXh- excellence, craftsman hors concoiirs.
Follow the signs as they lead unerringly to the irleaming white build-
ings that rise from breeze-swept acres facing the open Gulf and far-flung marsh meadows. Make the acquaintance of the tall, spare, blueeyed Virginian who knows more about fine, old furniture than any man alive probably and whose unfettered imagination is responsible for the unique design, construction and concept of these holdings. Visit the tall, light-house-like tower built by Mr. Carr during World War II for the purpose of coastal defense and which was used by the Third Fighter Command. At the war?s end Mr. Carr encircled the base of the tower with the roomy, (Continued on Page 22)
Would you ever guess this to be an antique shop? The building on the left encircling the tower is the workshop, that on the right, also circular, houses display rooms.


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