Live Local: Barq's Building - WXXV News 25
WXXV News 25 June 24, 2021 It’s time to Live Local, a series you can only catch here on WXXV. For this week’s edition, News 25’s Lorraine Weiskopf will take you inside the historic Barq’s Building on Howard Avenue in Biloxi. The Barq’s Building in downtown Biloxi has no relation to the famous root beer. It’s just the last name of the family who purchased the building back in 1938 to be used for commercial business. The family purchased the property from the Yerger family, adding to the history of the shopping district in Downtown Biloxi. The Barq’s Building began as two phases o...