Destrehan Plantation family history

Robert Antoine Robin de Logny lived on the property before the house was built and in the house from 1790 to his death in 1792…

Following his death, the Plantation was inherited by his daughter, Marie Celeste and her husband, Jean Noel Destrehan.

Jean Noel died in 1823, and Marie Céleste in 1824.

The property was acquired by Stephen Henderson, a very wealthy man of Scottish descent, who married Eleonor Zelia, one of the Destrehans’ daughters.

She died in 1830 and her husband in 1838. When they died, Pierre Adolphe Rost, a Frenchman who had settled in New Orleans in 1816 and married Louise Odile Destrehan, one of Eleonore Zelia’s sisters, bought the plantation from the Destrehan heirs.

Pierre Adolphe and Louise Odile undertook a major renovation of the house, modifying the columns of the exterior gallery and the roof to adapt to the neo-Greek fashion of the time.

In general, the house remains as described in the 1787 building contract.

The property remained in the hands of the Rost-Destrehan family until 1910, except for a few years during the Civil War, when the confiscated by Northern military authorities.