Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Welles 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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WELLES RIVERSIDE HOME

One of the most unusual and interesting stops on the Ponchatoula East Side Home 
and Garden tour is the John Welles rambling riverside house.  The Welles home on 
the Tangipahoa river was built by Mr. and Mrs. George Goodman.  Their home was 
rustic and the garden a natural one, containing many wild flowers as well as 
azaleas, camellias, and red buds.

John and Shirley Welles have made extensive additions to the house, den, bedrooms, 
baths, porches and decks, but the house remains basically informal and rustic.

A true collection of good camellias, several patios and a greenhouse were added to 
the garden, but in feeling it remains natural.

John, who is a finished cabinet maker, wood carver and metal worker, has made much 
of the furniture and decorative pieces in the house.  Of special interest are the 
driftwood coffee tables, the naturalistic wood carvings, and a fascinating large 
cross-section of oak root, hung on the den wall, entitled "The Beginning of the 
World"

Shirley decorated her home with blooming Bromeliards from her extensive greenhouse 
collection, or placed a single blooming b ranch of Huckleberry or Wild Camellia in 
an interesting vase.  Incidentally, her garden contains a very large specimen of 
the rare Stuartia or Wild Camellia.

This is a home for casual outdoor river living (the Welles are birdwatchers) and 
also dinner parties for twenty with the best silver and china on the buffet.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, IX, 1976, by Edna Campbell)