Godchaux–Reserve Plantation, Historic plantation in Reserve, Louisiana

The Godchaux–Reserve Plantation House is a raised colombage (timber-framed) building with walls of brick and bousillage between wooden posts, combining French Creole and Federal styles. Its core, two wooden rooms with a fireplace, dates to 1764; four Federal-style wraparound mantels were added around 1825. The house has been moved at least twice, most recently on September 25, 1993, to 1628 Louisiana Highway 44.

Jean Baptiste and Marie Therese Laubel built the original house in 1764, creating one of the region's earliest structures. Ownership later shifted from French settlers to free people of color before the property became a center of sugar manufacturing.

The name joins two owners: Léon Godchaux, who bought the house in 1869, and the Reserve Plantation, whose refinery operated here from 1917 to 1985. The company once offered public tours of the refinery, and its 1933 booklet The Story of Godchaux's Pure Cane Sugar promoted the brand.

The house now stands at 1628 Louisiana Highway 44, also called Great River Road, in Reserve. It was moved there on September 25, 1993, from the former Reserve Plantation less than a mile away, so the address marks the relocated site, not the 1764 setting. The Godchaux–Reserve House Historical Society, formed in 2013, works toward opening it as a museum.

President William Howard Taft visited the estate in 1909, marking its status as one of the nation's largest sugar production centers at that time. This presidential visit reflected the site's economic importance during that era.