The River Road Historical Society preserved this landmark for the community with the knowledge that the best way to restore and interpret the history and culture of a community, is for those efforts to come from within. Feeling it had fulfilled its role, on February 25, 1997, River Road Historical Society donated the House and property to the newly formed "Godchaux-Reserve House Historical Society".

The Godchaux-Reserve House Historical Society is a non-profit organization whose mailing address is P. O. Box 234, Reserve, Louisiana 70084. This organization was formed in 1996, by concerned citizens in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana dedicated to restoring this historical site and enhancing the cultural life of St. John the Baptist Parish.

State Preservation Director, Jonathan Fricker, wrote about the project, "This is an ongoing story of a titanic struggle to preserve an enormous Creole Plantation house. The house is one of Louisiana's oldest structures and in some ways embodies the state's unique history. It speaks not only of the wealth and importance of the historic sugar industry but also of the prominence of free people of color in the decades prior to the Civil War. Restoring the massive house remains a challenge, to put it mildly, but the situation is much improved since 1992 when the house was all but lost."