RESERVE — The boarded-up Haik’s Store in Reserve will open to the public for the first time in decades this April when it moves down River Road into the parking lot of the historic Godchaux Grammar School. Remembered as an integral part of community life from the late...
By Brooke Robichaux LOBSERVATEUR Published 12:20 am Saturday, October 20, 2018 LAPLACE — The historic Godchaux-Reserve House paints a story of “triumph in spirit and optimism over neglect and indifference,” according to Peter Wolf, great great grandson of the man who...
Repairs for long-vacant Leon Godchaux could cost $5 million BY RICHARD THOMPSON rthompson@theadvocate.com DEC 19, 201 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Efforts are underway to restore a nearly century-old high school building in St. John the Baptist Parish that has fallen into...
The Godchaux-Reserve House Historical Society gratefully thank Lester Vicknair of Reserve, for the generous donation of over 7k bricks to use on the Godchaux-Reserve House restoration. These are bricks that were saved from the old St. Peter’s Church of Reserve...
The Godchaux-Reserve House Historical Society held a ceremony November 30 celebrating a major accomplishment for the society — the completion of a new roof and stabilization of the badly worn home that was once the heart of the St. John the Baptist Parish’s 18th...