He then sold the improved land back to his son, Joseph Guilaume, with the plantation house for $13,000; the 1825-1926 transaction records establish the value of the building was $5,500.

The Lombard family owned the plantation for less than a decade; the land and house was sold April 11, 1833 to Phillipe Guesnon for a lucrative sum of $50,000 (~$1.68 million in 2023) for unknown reasons.

On January 20, 1835, the house and land were auctioned off to Frenchman Jean Louise Grasse; the bill of sale to Grease described the property as "une belle maison..." Grasse died March 1843 in debt, his widow renounced her succession of the plantation in order to pay off the debt.

Charles Caffin controlled the plantation from 1864 to 1880; during his tenure he added a cast iron cornstalk fence to the property, which lasted until the 1960s.

In 1878, the building was auctioned, the parcel was subdivided again and within a decade shotgun houses were built within the property boundaries.

[2] Over the last decade the plantation home has been restored back to its initial construction by the current owner.

The raised basement has a repointed foundation, excess wiring and plumbing were removed, the cypress beams were reinforced with iron.

Chemical analysis in the dining room revealed the turquoise color and the gold stenciling painted by local artist Patricia Cummings.