The Incredible Over 200 years old Forgotten Homeplace Plantation Down South in Louisiana 

The roof is now on and watertight . Not open for tours as we are sorting out the interior floors and securing the balconies on the upper level. Kappy did a great job . It was exciting watching the video To others that know the river road above New Orleans, the Founder of Laura - Norman Marmillion - died of an accident on the 11th of Oct 2022. He was a personal friend and contributor to the thoughts on the future of the Plantation. His wife Sand and daughter have lost a Husband and Father but the area has lost a very special individual. the River Road welcomes discoveries of the Past. """ STELLA''''' yelled Stanley

Born & raised in Hahnville Louisiana. The plantation was literally in my back yard . We played in the Cane field behind the plantation growing up. My grandmother and her parents lived and worked there.

I was born and raised in Louisiana and I never heard of this amazing home before!!! I am so thankful someone is saving it!! Houses like this were built to last! Can you see a home built today still standing 300 years later??? Even with all the water damage and no roof this old girl is in spectacular condition! All she needs is some love and someone committed to her restoration and she will be a stunning beauty again! Thanks so much for covering this amazing piece of southern history!! Cheers

Thank you Kappy and Ruby for a wonderful trip back in time! Hope they can afford to get a new roof on soon. Please take us back to this place again, ok?

Absolutely fascinating! I’m so happy it’s gonna be saved as historic homes should be. 😊. What a visual and educational treat! Thank you Kappy!!

Please hurry and get that roof on. I toured a restored home just like this one while in Louisiana a few years ago. What an undertaking both financial and physical. God Bless the family for their efforts and thank you Kappy for this find.

Enjoyed the interaction between you and the owner. Nice to know they are not giving up on Homeplace. Thank you

So nice to see a beautiful old home like that being restored.

Very nice. I'd love to see it all again when it's completely restored.

Gorgeous home!!!! I’m so incredibly happy that it’s going to be saved and restored!! I wish more of our older, historical homes would have the same ending as this one. Thank you so very much Kappy for bringing these fascinating homes to us. You’re absolutely the BEST! Stay safe and thanks again for all your time, effort and hard work. ❤️

Dude needs to finish that modelo and get to working on that roof 🍺 great video. Never seen beams put together with dowels for a roof awesome

I love this style house with the surround porch.

Wow, What a House.. Yeah on Nat'l. Historic Register & it should be. Started to ask about water coming thru, but see hurricane took roof.. Huge thanks to the gentleman taking you thru the house..

Awesome house! Thank you, Ruby, and your guides for the tour. Sure hope that roof has been finished since you filmed this. That water dripping in made me cringe, knowing how much damage it was doing.

Love a happy ending as much as I love Kappy express his excitement over architecture!

Glad to see this home being preserved.

Stunning and sturdy. If only America could return to such values and workmanship. Brilliant to have someone answering questions and giving some of the history of the place. TY so much for sharing. Hoping to revisit this beauty in my dreams tonight!

Oh wow! Such an exciting tour! So glad to hear someone is restoring this home

Over the top video young man! Such a fascinating story! You finally came across a house that's actually being remodeled, with someone to tell the story as you went through the house. I enjoy your content a lot! Thanks for taking me along!

Y'all have truly had a great opportunity! Old southern architecture ( including French Colonial Raised) is so full of atmosphere and very complicated history. This is a grand, stately building.

I’m so happy to finally see a beautiful old home being brought back to life instead of being torn down. I’d love to see this home when it’s finished. I hope the owners will let you do another video upon completion.

Kappy I have to say this is my very favorite of your vids. I pray the owners get it protected with a roof on ASAP. They need a gofund me or some sort of volunteer group to save this awesome piece of historical architecture.

What a timepiece!! And hats off to the folks who are going to restore it. They definitely have their work ahead of them. I really enjoyed the chats you had with the fellows. They seem really proud to be a part of the restoration. You two have a great weekend and thanks for the awesome tour once again :o)

Stunning!!! I enjoyed visiting old plantains in the Carolinas an seeing how they were made. Hopefully this beauty will be back in shape with a new roof soon. Hope you go back when she is fixed up again. Thanks for showing us this historical plantation.

This was an absolute delight. I learned a ton and I work in architectural preservation. Thank you so much for this Kappy. Outstanding!!

Gorgeous home. Thank you for bringing us along Kappy. So glad it is being saved. My love to Ruby.

What a cool place. Loved that someone took time out of their day to give you a tour and tell you all these interesting things. I hope they will be able to save this place and restore it to it's former glory. Absolutely wonderful.

Hooray! I've been eagerly waiting for this one, Kapps! You always find the best gems! It's Saturday Kappy night over here tonight instead of Saturday movie night! The best part is that these home always bring back the best childhood memories for me. Thanks for all you do!

Amazing house. I bet it was absolutely beautiful when it was built.

Thanks for taking us along so glad they are saving that amazing home 😁

Wow, this was so worth waiting for. I Googled the historical photos too. What a great place it's going to be amazing when fully restored. Hopefully Kappy will be able to do an update then. It's going to be beautiful. Thanks, Kappy, Ruby and, Mr. John

Wow Kappy that was a fabulous video. I appreciate your talent and dedication for finding and documenting these beautiful treasures.

Hey Kappy and Ruby. Amazing explore. Loved all the history you have and will definitely look it up an Google. If they are truly restoring this gem, I hope you guys revisit it. Thanks again for your awesome explore! ✌️

Beautiful. Good thing they're not demolishing it. It's a piece of history

Thanks for the wonderful video absolutely enjoyed beautiful home 🏠

I’ve only read about this plantation house in books and online so it was a real treat get to see this. You did an excellent job on documenting it. I believe we passed this when we toured Laura Plantation & Oak Alley a few years ago. I hope how soon they are able to get a roof back on this. It’s a wonderful landmark. I love this house. This is definitely a video that I’ll watch again. Thank you!

Wow what a beautiful house ❤loved the fireplace with the mirror 🪞 I love old houses thank you for sharing

Kappy ---- I hope you go back and video this after it's restored. Please let the people that are restoring this see all these comments wanting to see it once it's done and back to it's former glory. Thanks for posting these videos. Reading the comments in all your videos I now know that I'm not alone in my interest in these old homes and the history. If those walls could talk.

Outstanding find and documentation Kappy! So glad this home will be restored! The cypress roof beams with wooden dowels are simply amazing. That's not just any cypresswood either. It's old growth heart cypress that essentially doesn't exist anymore because the overwhelming majority of the old growth trees were harvested long ago. There is a contemporary cane syrup maker in Louisiana named Steen's that uses a French colonial plantation house on the label that looks just like the one in this video. I think it's the best cane syrup on the market personally. You can order it from Amazon. Thanks again for the powerful work you're doing and sharing these great places with all of us who would never have a chance to see them! Next time you're down in the New Orleans area be sure to go to the Garden District and eat at one of the many great restaurants there. And finally, here's my video of 100-year-old Florida farm and their family tradition of making cane syrup themselves. I'm proud to say it's been shown in three Florida museums. Hope you like it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9w362LG4NEc.html

What a treat! The materials and techniques so fascinating. Hope they are able to get a roof back on pretty quickly. Thanks for sharing!

Love Love LOVE! This may be the best one yet! Thanks Kappy!

Holy Cow! That house is exquisite. Fireplaces are the prettiest I've ever seen. Thank you so much Kappy.

Such an interesting place, can't wait to check it out online. Thanks Kappy for finding such awesome historical places., 👍

It's so great to see a wonderful house being restored. Maybe you could find more like this - it's so sad to see wonderful old homes just trashed.

This is one place that's full of history! So glad it's being restored. So beautiful. Thank you Kappy. Great video

A million thanks for introducing us to this spectacularly amazing building which thankfully is being saved. So very historic, beautiful and interesting. Please take us back after it's renovated.

How cool is that? That great old lady is being saved! Bet she's seen alot of storms. Cant wait to see her when shes restored! Kappy, that house ought to satisfy your love of porches! Thanks, and hi to Ruby! 🌻

I am from Australia I love these home so happy this beautiful home is being restored

I’d love to see a follow up video of when it’s done.

They need to get a tin roof up there ASAP! Stunning home and so historic. What a thrill to go through. Thx for sharing Kappy ❤

You are in your bliss! Thanks for sharing.

Someone needs to do a documentary on the restoration of this beauty!

I love the house and the unique wrap-around porch. We have a few of these houses along the river near St. Louis, MO., also founded by the French. Ste. Genevieve is the oldest town on the Mississippi River in Missouri, founded in 1750. Lots of beautiful old houses there and wonderful stories of the people who founded it.

Great video! What an historic place. So glad it's being saved. So amazing.

That is so awesome that you were given a tour, hope your able to showcase more videos like this. It's great to see younger people getting excited about these old places.

In 2009 I drove around Homeplace and was looking through ALL my old plantation books to find her in them. She wasn't as commonly photographed as I had hoped. I couldn't get out and do a walk bout as I am in a wheelchair and there wasn't any phone service there at the time....not safe for me alone. Always told my friends that Id be the skeleton someone would find if I got stuck. LOL Grass wasn't cut back then. House was not really being worked on either. So sad about the roofing.hope it get's redone quickly to save the house. YY ou never mentioned the outdoor chimney in the back yard..that was the remnant of the original cooking/baking kitchen to prevent a house fire.Thank you for doing this revisit.

Kappy with the weather and storms they have in Louisiana, I just can’t see them ever being able to restore it and keep it that way. Too much money and too much water damage and it would be continuous because of the weather. A vicious circle! I bet this place holds lots of secrets. If only the walls could talk. Love the way French Colonial style homes have the wrap around porches! Top and bottom.

Absolutely beautiful! I hope they fix it back up. Thank you for sharing Kappy!!!

Incredible! And to think I lived down river from there about 15 minutes. Only for a winter though, in the 80's

I loved this explore because it has hope for the future. Loved the tour of the restoration of this amazing home.

It's amazing that this house has survived for 200 years considering that it's been sitting in the middle of a wet swampy floodplain being beaten by hurricanes all that time.

Glad to see that it will be saved !! One heck of a history for sure ....hope they can get it stuck back together before another storm or something else comes along to destroy it further. GREAT video as always Kappy !! 👍👍

It's awesome.Avery special thank you to the owner and to you and Ruby for the grand tour What a place.And the grounds are beautiful as well So glad it is being saved👍❤️

WOW!!! What a beauty!!

I absolutely love the green exterior doors! Wow...what history!

Thanks again very amazing.

How great to see something close to home. Definitely different architecture! The Gulf Coast is beautiful as it is treacherous with the storms. Great job Kappy! Keep it up!

Fabulous, beyond words!! Kappi you're amazing to bring these videos to us!!! 🙌🙌🙏❤️

Those original Italian marble floor tiles were the first thing I noticed when you pointed the camera into the doorway. I'm glad you pointed them out. I wish the Keller family luck in restoring this place. At least they have a lot of the original features to work with. Now get a roof on the place! All of the mantles were amazing. So sad that these places were built on the backs of slaves. I sure hope that they do save this house. It's well worth it. I did look up the old photos of the Homeplace Plantation. It was quite something. I hope it will be again.

So glad to hear that this beauty is being restored. Fascinating history. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Back when houses were built for a purpose (had to be) and with the location/climate in mind. Yet, ended up with so much more character than modern houses.

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing ,as always.

Lovely that this historic building is being saved! Wonderful❤️

Sooooo happy they are trying to restore it!! Just gorgeous!!!

Another over the top explore Kappy! They need to put the roof on yesterday and give those fans a rest! 👍👍👍👍

Incredible.

I would love to see it after the restoration is complete. Sure hope that they get the roof on soon. Thanks Kappy and Ruby!

Thanks for this amazing explore! Loved it!

Another fantastic video, thanks for sharing these videos. 👌🙏👌

In the days when this house was being built, cypress was not that hard to come by. Cypress grew and had to be cleared to build the house and property. Cypress is a very hard wood which bugs don't mess with and seldom rots. It's also hard to hammer a nail into.

Hey Kappy! This was really incredible. He was really nice.I lived in Lake Charles, La-just a couple hours from there. I really loved exploring there. So much history. I hope you go on a swamp explore in between your plantation explores. Of course don’t go on your own😮,you might never come out. This really took me back to the few years we lived there. I have to go find all my photos of the places I saw & explored. Enjoy the great Cajun food too. Have a blast & stay safe.

Glad someone is fixing it up..

Another awesome video Kappy . Hello Ms. Ruby.

Great find! I have never heard of these houses you are showcasing.

Loved this, so amazing. Thank you for taking us along. Such an amazing house.

It's really worrying they're letting all that water come down from the missing roof. Should get it at least covered with plywood. Bad roofs destroy houses quicker than anything else.

wowwww kappy i love these old plantation houses beautiful land there perfect i sure hope it can be saved would be sad if they couldnt amazing architecture thanks alot happy exploring say hi to ruby

That guy knew what he was talking about when he said the place needed dehumidifying Kappy it is so sweet to see your excitement. I love the way you narrate it from time to time. You have become very knowledgeable about things too. I have always wanted to see inside one of those houses. I’d love to see it when they get it fixed up.

Glad to hear they are going to restore this rare place! Thanks for sharing!

Great video! SO HAPPY to see one of these beauties being saved! Thank God!

Awesome video. I love how all the old houses still stand. I live in Norcal and nothing here is quite that old and still standing that I know about.

Thats crazy man imagine the lives that were lived there?

Haven't seen ya around lately, but it's great your still around.

What an amazing house! The floors looked so good for being exposed to water. And the porch 😲

If you're still in deep South, try to go to Tunica, Louisiana and see the Trudeau house. Worth seeing.

Thank you, Kappy.

Very interesting home. Beautiful! Glad family is going to renovate.

I did not expect the inside to look like that. The Italian marble floor was the first thing I noticed. I love old southern homes! Thank you for sharing. 😁

I am glad Ruby went with you! Thank you for the video of this grand old house!

That place so much needs a new roof. I cannot bear to see it dripping like that.