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Fort de Chartres Building, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Buildings within the fort complex have been reconstructed in outline.
Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois (detail)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The roof support system has diagonal wind braces, a characteristic that shows a transitional building style as the French culture in the area became "Americanized" following the end of the American Revolution.
Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The vertical log construction of the Pierre Martin house was revealed when the exterior clapboard was removed. The vertical walnut timbers are anchored at top and bottom by wooden pegs, a technique called mortise and tendon, which requires great skill. The spaces between the logs, which were groved along their narrow edges, were filled with stone nogging, or "pierrotage.
Guibourd-Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The post-on-sill house has a gallery across the front that can be entered from either end. There are two entrances into the house from the gallery. The attic contains Norman truss work with huge oak beams.
Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bolduc House has a stockade or property fence (pieux debouts), typical of many French homes, which encloses its yard and backyard garden, as well as outbuildings. This provided security and kept domestic animals from straying off the property.
Cahokia Courthouse
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Images of Cahokia Courthouse from different angles
Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Amoureaux House, built in 1785, is a French vernacular post in ground (poteaux-enterre) construction. It is one of three in Ste. Genevieve and only five in the U.S. In the bedroom, on the fireplace mantel are candlesticks, goblets, and a mantel clock.
Church of the Holy Family, Cahokia
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)See individual images for descriptions.
Bequette-Ribault House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Constructed of red cedar posts set into a trench in the ground (poteaux en terre), this house was built around the turn of the nineteenth century. The spaces between the vertical logs were filled with a mud-plaster chinking (bouzillage). This house is located on St. Mary's Road a short distance out of town.
Map of Marquette and Jolliet Route
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Pierre Marquette and Louis Jolliet successfully located the Mississippi River and traveled down it in two birch bark canoes, accompanied by five voyageurs. On the return trip they chose the Illinois River and then the Des Plaines River, where it was easier to paddle upstream. From the Des Plaines River it was a short portage to Lake Michigan.
St. Gemme-Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The overhanging roof creates a gallery that probably once extended around all sides of the house. There is a steep stairway on the gallery that provides access to the second floor.
French Colonial House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This one-story house shows the typical overhanging eaves and vertical log construction of French Colonial structures. A short fence encloses the property.
Fort de Chartres, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The third Fort de Chartres, a limestone structure with four bastions, was built by the French in the Illinois Country in 1753, replacing two earlier wooden structures.
Pierre Menard Home, Ellis Grove, Illinois
Multi-Page Item | 8 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Collection of views of the Pierre Menard Home.
Cahokia Village
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Winter scene at Cahokia from a lithograph by J. S. Wild, published in 1841. Horses roam freely in the Commons. A couple in a sleigh are pulled by a horse. Another couple walks in the snow, the woman keeping her hands warm in a muff, and the man by shoving his hands in his pockets. Two children play in the distance. ...

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Fort de Chartres Building, Illinois

Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois (detail)

Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois

Guibourd-Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Cahokia Courthouse

Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Church of the Holy Family, Cahokia

Bequette-Ribault House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Map of Marquette and Jolliet Route

St. Gemme-Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

French Colonial House

Fort de Chartres, Illinois

Pierre Menard Home, Ellis Grove, Illinois

Cahokia Village

Fort de Chartres Building, Illinois

Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois (detail)

Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois

Guibourd-Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Cahokia Courthouse

Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Church of the Holy Family, Cahokia

Bequette-Ribault House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Map of Marquette and Jolliet Route

St. Gemme-Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

French Colonial House

Fort de Chartres, Illinois

Pierre Menard Home, Ellis Grove, Illinois

Cahokia Village