Amoureux House facts for kids
The Amoureux House, sometimes called the Beauvais–Amoureux House, is a very old and special building in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. It was built way back in 1792 by Jean-Baptiste St. Gemme Beauvais II. He moved to Ste. Genevieve from Kaskaskia, Illinois. Later, in 1852, Benjamin C. Amoureux bought it. His father was a French immigrant.
Today, the Amoureux House is a museum. The National Park Service takes care of it. It is one of only a few buildings left that were built in a special way.
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The Amoureux House: A Historic Gem
Built to Last: A Unique Style
The Amoureux House is famous because of how it was built. It uses a special French colonial style called poteaux-en-terre. This means 'posts in the ground'. Imagine big wooden posts standing upright, with their bottoms buried in the ground. This was a common way to build houses a long time ago.
The Amoureux House is one of only three poteaux-en-terre buildings still standing in Ste. Genevieve. The other two are the Bequette-Ribault House and the Vital St. Gemme Beauvais House I. Across the entire United States, only five of these unique houses remain. The other two are the LaPointe-Krebs House in Pascagoula, Mississippi and the Badin-Roque House near Natchitoches, Louisiana.
The Lasource–Durand Cabin
Right behind the Amoureux House, you can find another historic building. This is the Lasource–Durand Cabin. It also shows how people lived and built homes many years ago.
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Amoureux House
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The East Side in 1937
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The East Side in 2007
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The poteaux-en-terre walls
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The floor support is independent of the log walls
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Plan of the basement and foundations of the Amoureux House
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A longitudinal Section of the Amoureux House
Lasource–Durand Cabin
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A 2007 photo of the Lasource–Durand Cabin
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A 1936 photo of the Lasource–Durand Cabin behind the Amoureux House
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Pierrotage in the Lasource-Durand Cabin.
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An isometric drawing of the Lasource-Durand Cabin
