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Homeplace Plantation was built on a Spanish landgrant of 10,000 acres in the late 1790’s for Pierre Gaillard. Homeplace was built by Charles Paquet, an enslaved Mulatto, who also built Destrehan Plantation. Homeplace is a near perfect example of a raised Creole Plantation home.
In 1800 Gaillard’s widow sold the home and property to Louise Edmond Fortier. In 1849 Fortier died and his wife sold the home to their son Drausin and three of their sons-in-law. Drausin died of yellow fever in 1856.
The property changed ownership several times over the remaining years until it was purchased by Pierre Anatole Keller and his brother in law, Ulysses Haydel. The property was then divided with Keller retaining the home and the upriver portion of the property and Haydel retaining the downriver portion. Keller and his son Theodore renovated the old home and planted an alee of pecan trees up the front drive of which remnants remain today. The property is vacant but is still owned by the Keller Family