Vital St. Gemme Beauvais House I, 20 South Main Street, Sainte Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, MO

Significance: This house is made of vertical cedar logs set directly in the ground one of just three surviving palisadoed houses (poteaux en terre). This distinctive creole type was the most widely used in the French period in Ste. Genevieve, a National Historic Landmark district.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-31

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: 177

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-134

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-177

Survey number: HABS MO-1121

Building/structure dates: 1785 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: ca. 1894 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: ca. 1901 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: ca. 1936 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000892

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1936

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