Amoureux House
{{short description|Historic house and museum in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri}}
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File:Photograph from the street of the Amoureaux House in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg
The Amoureux House, sometimes called the Beauvais–Amoureux House, is in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri. It was built in 1792 by Jean-Baptiste St. Gemme Beauvais II who moved from Kaskaskia, Illinois. In 1852, it was purchased by Benjamin C. Amoureux, who immigrated to the United States from France.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}
It is currently operated as a museum by the National Park Service. It is one of three surviving poteaux-en-terre buildings in Ste. Genevieve and one of five surviving in the entire United States. The other Ste. Genevieve poteaux-en-terre buildings are the Bequette-Ribault House and the Vital St. Gemme Beauvais House I (20 S. Main Street). The remaining two are the LaPointe-Krebs House in Pascagoula, Mississippi and the Badin-Roque House near Natchitoches, Louisiana.{{cite book|author=Mark L. Evans|year=2001|title=The Commandant's Last Ride|publisher=Ten-Digit Press|location=Cape Girardeau, Missouri}} The Lasource–Durand Cabin is located behind the Amoureux House.
Galleries
=Amoureux House=
File:Photograph_of_the_East_and_South_Sides_of_the_Amoureaux_House_in_Ste_Genevieve_MO.jpg|The East Side in 1937
File:Photograph of the Eastern Side of the Amoureaux House in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg| The East Side in 2007
File:Poteaux-en-Terre-Cellar_of_the_Bauvais-Amoureux_House.jpg|The poteaux-en-terre walls
File:Photograph_of_the_Floor_Support_of_the_Amoureaux_House_in_Ste_Genevieve_MO.jpg|The floor support is independent of the log walls
File:Basement Floor and Structural Plan-- Amoureaux House in Ste Genevieve MO.png|Plan of the basement and foundations of the Amoureux House
File:Drawing_of_a_Longitudinal_Section_of_the_Amoureaux_House_in_Ste_Genevieve_MO.png|A longitudinal Section of the Amoureux House
=Lasource–Durand Cabin=
File:Lasource-Durand House Under a Tree in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg|A 2007 photo of the Lasource–Durand Cabin
File:Photograph of 1936 of a Cabin Behind the Amoureaux House in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg|A 1936 photo of the Lasource–Durand Cabin behind the Amoureux House
File:Pierrotage in the Durand Cabin.jpg|Pierrotage in the Lasource-Durand Cabin.
Isometric Drawing of Lasource-Durand Framing-Ste in Genevieve MO.png|An isometric drawing of the Lasource-Durand Cabin
References
External links
- [http://amoureuxhouse.org Amoureux House]
- [http://www.greatriverroad.com/stegen/sgattract/amoureux.htm Amoureux House — Sainte Genevieve, Missouri]
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{{Buildings and Structures of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri}}
Category:French-American culture in Missouri
Category:Museums in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri
Category:Historic house museums in Missouri
Category:Houses in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Category:French colonial architecture in the United States
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri