The mansion is up for $2.9M
Anyone interested in buying a 229-year-old mansion that predates the Louisiana Purchase by more than a decade may want to take a look at Ormond Plantation.
Newly on the market, the $2.9 million mansion has been listed by Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty in New Orleans. Listing agent Ernesto Cadeira said the mansion’s West Indies style makes it a unique find.
Ormond Plantation, which is advertised as being among “the oldest indigo-sugar plantations left along the Mississippi River in Destrehan” is a 16-acre site and historic opportunity.
The plantation is a two-story building that includes a restaurant, full bar, six bed and breakfast rooms, and extensive wedding venue facilities. Cadeira emphasized they will remain open through the sale and would make an enticing venue to an adventurous buyer.
The plantation’s history goes back to the early 1780’s when Pierre d’Trepagnier was awarded a tract of land by Spanish Governor Don Bernardo deGalvez to recognize his service in subduing the British at Natchez during the American Revolution.
The main building was completed shortly before 1790 and occupied by the d’Trepagniers and their children. They soon began growing indigo and then sugar cane, which brought prosperity to the plantation.
But, in 1798, d’Trepagnier left with a gentlemen claiming to be a Spanish official and never returned. No trace of him was ever found.
From 1805 to 1819, Col. Richard Butler owned the plantation. When the yellow fever epidemic arrived in New Orleans, he sold the plantation to his brother-in-law and moved to Mississippi.
Despite the move, Butler and his wife fell victim to the yellow fever a year later.
In 1898, State Sen. Basile LaPlace Jr. bought the plantation and soon after allegedly made enemies with the Ku Klux Klan. LaPlace was called out into the night and gunned down. He was then hung in the large oak tree, which stands on River Road in front of the homestead.
Nearly 20 years ago, Johnny “Irwin” Carmouche bought the property.
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