This circa 1836 center hall Creole cottage, built of poteaux sur sole and bousillage construction on the 1780s land grant to Claude Pierre Thomas Metoyer, stood on the lower 68 acres given to a free woman of color, Coincoin, mother to his 10 Franco-African children, who were the genesis of Isle Brevelle and builders of Melrose Plantation and St. Augustine Church. Pierre and his French wife, Marie Therese Buard, had three children who intermarried with the Prudhomme and Lambre families, becoming the genesis of the Cote Joyeuse, and in 1810 he held 103 enslaved workers on this plantation. Pierre's granddaughter Ophelia Prudhomme acquired the land from her parents and, after being twice widowed, married the two sons of Gen. Jean Baptiste Plauche of the Battle of New Orleans; her family was connected through business and kinship to Magnolia Plantation, Beau Fort, Cedar Bend, Cherokee, Oaklawn, and Oakland. During the 1864 Red River Campaign, Union and Confederate troops passed through the Old Plauche Place on March 30 and April 21, burning baled cotton and gins, removing property, and prompting 78 of the 81 enslaved residents to leave with the advancing and later retreating Union troops. Her son Andrew Jackson Plauche and his wife Estelle Ducournau left the place to the Ducournau family, and under Andrew Jackson Plauche's will Joe Plauche, a southern planter of color, lived there from 1900 to 1946 and employed returning veterans of World War I. In 1963, owner Jo Bryan Ducournau, whose father commissioned the "Good Darky" statue, renamed the place "Hope."