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]}

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. ^[1] The Lasource–Durand Cabin is located behind the Amoureux House.

Galleries

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

References

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• Sainte Geneviève
• French architecture

External links

• Amoureux House
• Amoureux House — Sainte Genevieve, Missouri

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