Pierrotage is a half-timbered
timber framing
Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy Beam (structure), timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and Woodworking joints, joined timbers with joints secure ...
technique in which stone infill is used between posts. It was used in France and by French settlers in
French Canada and Upper Louisiana.
["Pierrotage, pierotage" def. 1. Edwards, Jay Dearborn, and Nicolas Verton. ''A Creole lexicon architecture, landscape, people''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 155. Print.]
See also
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Bousillage
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French architecture
French architecture consists of architectural styles that either originated in France or elsewhere and were developed within the territories of France.
History
Gallo-Roman
The architecture of Ancient Rome at first adopted the external Gre ...
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French colonization of the Americas
France began colonizing America in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. France established colonies in much of eastern North America, on several Caribbean is ...
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New France
New France (, ) was the territory colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Br ...
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Poteaux-en-terre
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Poteaux-sur-solle
Poteaux-sur-sol ("posts on a sill" – sol is also spelled sole and solle) is a style of timber framing in which relatively closely spaced Post (structural), posts rest on a timber Sill plate, sill. Poteaux-en-terre and pieux-en-terre are similar ...
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Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Ste. Genevieve ( ) is a city in Ste. Genevieve Township and is the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,999 at the 2020 census. Founded in 1735 by French Canadian colonists and settlers from east ...
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Vernacular architecture
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References
Timber framing
New France
French colonial architecture
French-Canadian culture in the United States
French-American culture in Missouri
Missouri culture
Vernacular architecture
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