Keywords: Photograph of the Log Walls in the Cellar of the Amoureaux House in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg This is a 1986 photograph showing the vertical oak logs and the rubble stone piers of the Amoureaux House in Ste Geneviève Missouri Note the measuring stick The stone piers support the floor; which is independent of the log walls The Amoureaux House sometimes called the Bauvais-Amoureux House was built in in 1793 in Ste Geneviève Missouri It was built by Benjamin Amoureaux who came from France It is currently operated as a museum by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources It is one of three <i>poteaux-en-terre</i> buildings that survive The others are the Bequet-Ribault House and the Vital St Gemme Beauvais House I 20 S Main Street Historic American Engineering Record National Park Service; Record MO-1113 April/May 1986 Jack E Boucher MO-1113 Amoureaux house Cellars in the United States Historic American Buildings Survey of Missouri Black and white photographs of Missouri |