Michel Brouillet House - Vincennes, IN
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N 38° 41.004 W 087° 31.668
16S E 454093 N 4281776
"...and a rare enclosed bed in the front bedroom that has the date 1759 carved on its doors." ~ Discover Own Town
Waymark Code: WM107KW
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2019
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County of building: Knox County
Location of structure: 508 N. 1st St., Vincennes
Built: c. 1790
Listed as number 1 structure in the district nomination form
Phone: 812-882-7886 or 800-886-6443
"The Brouillet House, 509 N. First Street (c. 1790): A French Canadian Colonial House with vertical hewn logs with bousillage between "poteaux sur sol", approximately 35' x 25'. Original four room house has had a lean-to added to rear. The exterior has been covered with clapboard and it was remodeled before the turn of the century." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
Marker on site:
Erected in 1995
Marker erected by: Indiana Historical Bureau and Old Northwest Corporation
Marker text:
OLD FRENCH HOUSE
Home of French fur trader Michel Brouillet (1774-1838). French Creole cottage (built circa 1806) is typical of "posts-on-sill" construction technique used by French settlers in Mississippi Valley during eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Restoration 1974-1976. Located within Vincennes Historic District.
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