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The Louis Bolduc House, also known as Maison Bolduc, is a historic house museum at 123 South Main Street in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri. It is an example of poteaux sur solle ("posts-on-sill") construction, and is located in the first European settlement in the present-day state of Missouri.
BOULDUC, LOUIS, soldier, settler, bourgeois, king’s attorney; b. c. 1648 or 1649, son of Pierre Boulduc, master apothecary-herbalist of the Rue Saint-Jacques, in the parish of Saint-Benoît in Paris, and of Gilette Pijart; d. sometime between 1699 and 1701 in France.
Jan 17, 2023 · Louis Bolduc : his family and his house. by. Ekberg, Carl J. Publication date. 2002. Topics. Bolduc, Louis, approximately 1739-1815, Bolduc family, Bolduc, Louis, approximately 1739-1815 -- Homes and haunts -- Missouri -- Sainte Genevieve, Bolduc House Museum (Sainte Genevieve, Mo.), Pioneers -- Missouri -- Sainte Genevieve ...
Louis Bolduc was born near Quebec City in the village of St. Joachim around 1739 (his baptismal record is not extant), son to Zacharie and Jeanne Meunier Bolduc. Young Louis fled the St. Lawrence River valley as the French and Indian War of 1756 to 1763 turned decisively against the French.
May 26, 2023 · Constructed in 1770 by Louis Bolduc, a prosperous merchant and lead miner, The Bolduc House is a timeless testament to the architectural brilliance of the French settlers. Recognized as a National Historic Landmark, this house is a portal into eighteenth-century French colonial life.
Your experience takes you to three historic houses, including the National Historic Landmark, vertical log, circa 1792 Louis Bolduc House and its 18th century French kitchen garden. You will also explore the stories of French colonial Americans, Shawnee and Delaware Indians, and French African slaves in the oldest town of Missouri.
The “crown jewel” of our campus, The Louis Bolduc House is a French vertical log house was thought for decades to have been constructed in the 1790s, but recent research has shown that a part of the house more than likely dates from the late 1780s, while the south half dates from around 1793-1794.
