Site of 1st Classroom Bldg.

The college outgrew its first home in two years. In 1927 it moved to the Hunter Leake estate in north Hammond, and the next year it was renamed Southeastern Louisiana College and joined the state system under the state board of education. The campus grew to 60 acres, with a gymnasium and McGehee Hall, completed in 1935. Within eight years of that move the school had a hall and a gym, and bachelor's degrees were approved two years after that. The converted servants' building where classes began became a small footnote to a four-year campus.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 13 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• Fontainebleau State Park — 29 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.

More markers nearby

• Friendship Circle — steps away
• City Of Hammond — 0.5 mi
• Hammond Junior College — 0.7 mi
• The Republic of West Florida — 2.4 mi