The Brouillet House - Vincenes Historic District - Vincennes, IN
Posted by: YoSam.
N 38° 41.004 W 087° 31.668
16S E 454093 N 4281776
Number 1 on the structures list of the NHRP nomination form
Waymark Code: WMN4K6
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 12/26/2014
Views: 2
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
Text from the nomination form: 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.
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.