Echoes From The Attic and Poems, WINKLER 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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HONEYSUCKLE ROSE ACCENTS J. A. WINKLER HOME

Oak, magnolia, crape myrtle, bay and mimosa trees surround the background setting 
of the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.  Winkler Jr., on Darrell Drive, Whitmar Acres.  
Honeysuckle rose tones are accents.

Plans were drawn by Mrs. Winkler assisted by her husband, and the house was built 
in 1963 as their anniversary gift.  The Winklers moved into the house and 
celebrated Aug. 3 at a party.  

The large structure is on one level with the exception of Mr. Winkler's workshop 
and the carport.  The exterior is of hand-chipped pink bricks, imported from 
Houston, Texas.  Small white rocks are formation accents.  Furnishing on the 
porches in honeysuckle rose match the siding.  The trim is ornamental cast iron 
in oak 
pattern and white window shutters.  

The furniture on the porch was inherited and was the possession of Mrs. Winkler's 
father, the late Albert L. Grace, formerly owned by a judge and law partner.  It 
is heavy oak and over 100 years old.

The living room and dining room are furnished in Duncan Phyfe mahogany.  The walls 
are oyster white with white ceilings.  The carpets are maroon, and the draperies 
blend in a rose pattern.  The library is birch-paneled and furnished in oak pieces. 
 One entire wall is devoted to bookshelves, one wall is brick to match the outside. 
The floor covering is beige and upholstery and draperies in rust and red.  

The room of their daughter, Laughlin, is  finished in rose with draperies in floral 
pattern of pink and green.  The Duncan Phyfe bed features a teaster draped in white 
organdy with pink satin trim. The son's room is furnished in maple with off white 
walls and gold floor covering and blended draperies.

The kitchen, breakfast room and utility room are done in yellow and white with 
matching curtains.  Handiwork of the whole family is noted throughout the house; 
these include ceramics, paintings, and pieces of handmade furniture.

Mosiac wood flooring of selected oak is used all over the home with the exception 
of the breakfast room, kitchen and utility room.  The woods used in the home are 
fir, redwood, birch, oak and pine and paneling of birch and Japanese Sin.  The 
rooms are all large and baths are in ceramic tile, one in pink and the other in 
blue.  The entire family enjoys working together on arts, reading and traveling.

Mr. Winkler has just refinished a handsome mahognay china closet or china cabinet 
that was made in New Orleans in 1835.  He purchased it at an antique sale, took it 
apart, replaced the morror and put it together again. The sides are curved glass, 
and the antique may be a collector's item.

Mr. Winkler is a Psychiatric Social Consultant at Southeastern Louisiana University 
and an associate professorof Special Education; Mrs. Winkler teaches Special 
Education in Ponchatoula.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, V, 1970, by Edna Campbell)

(Pic: Winkler home)

(Their daughter, M. L. G. Winkler, M.D., is associated with three other physicians 
known as North Oaks Internal Medicine Associates, in Hammond, and resides in the 
family home.  BEC 1/29/01)