Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Edward Richardson House, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Jan. 2001
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.

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DORMER WINDOWS AND BANNISTERS KEYNOTE ARCHITECTURAL TRENDS

Bannisters on the front gallery and numerous dormer windows keynote the southern 
architectural lines of the large wooden framework house located on the corner of 
North Oak and West Church streets in Hammond.  The building has been the property 
of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church for a number of years, first serving as a 
kindergarten center and later a church school center.

The house is still known as the old Richardson home, and was acquired by Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward Richardson who came to Hammond around 1898.  They hailed from Farina, 
Ill., and were among the many other northerners who migrated to Hammond about 
that time.  Mr. Richardson was president of the old Hammond State Bank, forerunner 
of the Guaranty Bank of Hammond.

The Richardsons purchased the house and grounds from Mrs. J. C. Green in 1908.  
The Greens built the house for a family residence.  With Cape Cod trends the 
structure was similar to many homes of the era.  

The Richardsons had two sons, Curtis and Howard. Both are graduates of Hammond 
High School.  Howard went to West Point and later made his home in the east.  
Curtis, a graduate of Louisiana State University, a World War veteran, and a 
resident of Puerto Rico for a short time, returned to Hammond to live.  The 
family residence is on North Linden Ave.

Mrs. Edward Richardson's name is in the news clippings of the Hammond High School 
Parent Teachers Association and Hammond Garden Club records.  She was the 
instigator of the Mt. Vernon Walnut tree growing on the Hammond Post Office 
grounds.  She was instrumental in obtaining five walnut seeds from the Mt. Vernon 
trees and one of the seeds grew.  The tree was first planted on the school grounds 
and later at the present location.

On Feb. 21, 1958, pompous ceremonies were held at the Post Office to dedicate the 
plaque.  Co-chairman for the rites were Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. F. W. Reimers and 
Mrs. Rufus F. Palmer.

Mrs. Richardson continued to reside in Hammond lacking only one year of being a 
centenarian at her death about one year ago.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, IV, 1969, by Edna Campbell)

(Pic old Richardson home)

(Today the house is occupied by Our Kids After School and Evening Care, at 312 
North Oak St.  The dormer windows have been removed and the front porch has been 
enclosed in glass in  a somewhat semi-circle design.  BEC 1/29/01)