Pierrotage is a half-timbered
timber framing
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large woode ...
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
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French colonization of the Americas
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New France
New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by 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 Great Britain and Spa ...
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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 posts rest on a timber sill. Poteaux-en-terre and pieux-en-terre are similar, but the closely spaced posts ...
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Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
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Vernacular architecture
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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