Vital St. Gemme Beauvais House II, St. Mary's Road, Sainte Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, MO

Significance: This large stone house with trussed timber roof has been preserved without alterations to is impressive construction. Stone houses were unusual in Ste. Genevieve, but were built more often in St. Louis, colonial Kaskaskia, and Cahokia. The roof structure of this house is characteristic of large, well built creole houses in Ste. Genevieve. The roof structure is the only intact example in Ste. Genevieve in which the longitudinal braces take the form of a cross of St. Andrew, a form which was common in Quebec during the 18th and early 19th century.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181
Survey number: HABS MO-1284
Building/structure dates: ca. 1799 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000892