Echoes From The Attic and Poems, NELLIS 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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NEELIS HOME HAS EARLY ARCHITECTURAL TRENDS

One of Hammond's old homes remaining in excellent condition as a modern day 
residence is that formerly owned by the George C. Neelis Sr., family.  The house 
is located on the corner of West Michigan and North Pine Streets.

The Neelis home was built about 1893, and located on the SW quarter of Square 23, 
property formerly owned by Charles Emery Cate, who sold it to J. D. Wilcomb.  
Later it was sold to William E. Palmer from whom Neelis bought it, according to 
court records.

In earlier years of Hammond there were three Neelis brothers, Frank, George and 
Jack.  The Neelises were in the mercantile business before the turn of the century.

The Pine Street home was the family residence of the George Neelises and their 
three daughters, Evelyn, Cora (both deceased) and Hattie, now Mrs. W. Buford 
Thames, and one son, George.  The latter daughter and son still reside in Hammond.

In the original architectural trends of the old home there were many gables, 
French type windows with Venetian styled wooden blinds.  Featured were old 
fashioned rounded posts and bannister railings on the entrance porch.

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

(This house eventually  became an apartment house and began to deteriorate.  It 
was recently demolished, perhaps part of the expansion program of Holy Ghost 
Catholic Church and School.  BEC 1/21/01)
(See also part VIII "Neelis Home Undergoes Changes")