Destrehan Manor House

In January 1787 the indigo planter Robert Antoine Robin de Logny signed a contract with Charles, a free man of color who worked as a carpenter, woodworker and mason, to build the house. Part of Charles's payment was an enslaved person, who goes unnamed in the contract. When Jean-Noel Destrehan and Marie Celeste Robin de Logny took the estate in December 1792, the inventory counted 19 slave cabins and nine pairs of indigo vats. The Destrehans later shifted the estate from indigo to sugarcane.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — steps away
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 17 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 18 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 18 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.

More markers nearby

• Destrehan Plantation (1811 Slave Revolt) — steps away
• George Prince Ferry Memorial — 0.4 mi
• Hale Boggs Bridge — 0.4 mi
• Ormond Plantation — 0.7 mi