Laura Richards House, Federal architecture residence in Gardiner, United States

The Laura Richards House was a two-and-a-half-story wood-frame building with a hip roof, interior end chimneys and a clapboard exterior with denticulated cornice. Its main facade, facing Dennis Street, was five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by sidelights and pilasters and topped by a half-round transom. A rear 1+1⁄2-story ell with a monitor roof joined the house to a carriage barn.

The house was built in 1810 by Ebenezer Byram on land acquired from Robert Hallowell Gardiner. It received National Register recognition in 1979 but was demolished following a severe fire in December 2022.

Laura E. Richards, who bought the house with her husband Henry in 1878, was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Richards wrote most of her children's books here and shared the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography of her mother. The main facade faced Dennis Street and was five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by sidelights and pilasters.

The house stood in a residential area just south of downtown Gardiner, its main facade facing northeast toward Dennis Street. The building was demolished after the December 24, 2022 fire, so the site can only be viewed from the public street; no structure remains to enter.

Laura E. Richards shared the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1918 for her life of her mother, Julia Ward Howe, who wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic". The house where much of that writing was done was removed from the National Register in 2024, two years after the Christmas Eve 2022 fire that led to its demolition.