The house is the oldest wooden structure in North Louisiana and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The first structure on the property was a twenty-foot-by-twenty-five-foot one-room log cabin, built in 1816 by the Robert Byas family.
[1][2] Calvin Leary, originally from North Carolina, owned land in Bienville Parish and in Houston County, Georgia.
As his wealth grew, Leary added on porches to the front and back of the house and an elle addition, in the Greek Revival style, including a formal dining room and parlor.
[1] The plantation used the labor of enslaved people to produce cotton, wheat, peaches, and pecans, and raised pigs, for salt pork, and chicken.