[8][2] On one side of this plantation was the Mulatto Bend community (along US Route 190), the home of blues musician Slim Harpo.

[6][2] The Poplar Grove Plantation manor house was part of the Banker's Pavilion at the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition held in Audubon Park, New Orleans.

[12] The earlier days of the plantation featured on the property a sugar mill, workers' quarter, a chapel, barns, corn crib, and a commissary store.

[14] The plantation house structure was built by architect Thomas Sully, and is a single story, framed with a galleried porch.

[3] It is surrounded on three sides by a gallery porch with ornate decorations, including jigsaw cut Chinese dragons surrounding the top of the porch gallery, Eastlake abacus inspired spindles, and Queen Anne Revival style multi-pane windows and 60 stained glass windows.