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Visiting Hours The Bolduc House was the first authentically restored historic structure in Ste. Genevieve. This outstanding example of French colonial architecture was constructed in 1785 incorporating an earlier structure built in 1770. Built by Louis Bolduc, a prosperous French Canadian lead miner, merchant, and planter, this house and museum is owned and operated by the Missouri Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Built in the post on sil manner where heavy oak timbers were set about six inches apart and mortared with plaster made from mud, Spanish moss, and animal hair. The house features an 18th century garden, a stockade fence, and a steep hip roof that spreads out on all four sides that covers an enclosed porch called a galerie.
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