Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Cook Home, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Feb. 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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LIVE OAK TREE OF INTEREST ON COOK HOME GROUNDS

The home of Mrs. William C. Cook, 511 North Spruce Street in Hammond holds interest 
in its natural background setting highlighted with a towering oak tree registered 
with the Live Oak Society of Louisiana.  Of added interest to the attractive house 
is the historical beginning.

Constructed of choice lumber, the home was built for Mrs. L. R. (Katie) Henderson, 
mother of Mr. James McCarroll, a prominent lumberman of the McCarroll Lumber 
Company.  His family residence was the large homesite owned today by the Ralph 
Wilsons.  Mrs. Henderson's two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Brent and Mrs. James A. 
Gatlin, live in Hammond.

Mrs. Cook has resided here since 1960 when she and her late husband moved from 
Cherry street to the Spruce setting.

The house has undergone complete redecorating and improvement within the past two 
years.  The exterior of cypress is tan with white trim, and iron grill work is in 
the entrance.  The wide  solarium lends a note of hospitality to the building.  
Adjoining is the living room which is carpeted in wine, adding contrast to the 
white walls.

Two of the three downstairs bedrooms blend ashes of rose tones including the 
carpeting and draperies and one is done in blue.  The dining room adjoins the most 
popular space, the updated kitchen finished in antique birch paneling and equipped 
in ultra modern fixtures extending into the den area.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, VI, 1971, by Edna Campbell)

(Pic of house)