Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Boarding House, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Dec. 2000 Typed by Belford Carver Written by by Edna F. Campbell Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ BOARDING HOUSE HISTORICAL WOODEN FRAMEWORK HAMMOND HOME LINKS MEMORIES OF PAST WITH PRESENT DAY Reeking in history and wrapped in sentimental memories is the two-story wooden framework landmark home, of the R. M. Tycer family members, 101 South Spruce Street. Dipping back to early Hammond bygones, the building a boarding house, was erected by Mr. Charles Emery Cate, sometime after he had completed his family residence in the early 1860s. The boarding house structure was said to have been built to provide living quarters for workmen of the Cate shoe factory and the saw mill. It was located where the Citizens National Bank now stands. It was in two sections. The front section was moved to Spruce Street by Mr. Jesse P. Kenney, and occupied by himself and family for a short time, after which it was sold to the R. M. Tycers around 1921. At that time the Tycers' daughters were all residing with their parents. Mrs. Allen Stevens, (Florence) was employed at Donaldsons' store; Mrs. Frank A. Goblowsky (Elanore) worked at the Ozone Drug Store, owned by the Wiltzes'; Mrs. Galen Norman, (Gladys) taught school at Natalbany, and Miss Flora Tycer, was at home and has continued to live in the same home through the years. Their son living in Hammond also was Judge Nat Tycer. (From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC AND POEMS, II, 1967, by Edna F. Campbell) (Pic A Landmark Home)