A Guide to Ste Genevieve With Notes On Its Architecture
A Guide to Ste Genevieve With Notes On Its Architecture
United States National Park Service
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MAP OF A PART OF STE. GENEVIEVE 3. POINTS OF INTEREST IN STE. GENEVIEVE TODAY 9. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS CONCERNING STE. GENEVIEVE This study is presented "by authority of the Historic Sites and Buildings Act of Congress, approved August 21, 1935- FOREWORD In an investigation cf the old Creole village of St. Louis, which once outlined the site of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, the architectural research staff of the National Park Service has made an extensive search in the source mater...ials which remain, '"hile docu- mentary evidence is rich (there are 2^03 documents in the St. Louis Recorded Archives, many of which contain architectural information), it has teen necessary to recreate a dead vocabulary to understand it. This process involved a correlating study of Eighteenth Century docu- ments and existing buildings. The last of the French buildings of St. Louis disappeared two generations ago. Only in Ste. Genevieve can the comparison be made todav. Unfortunately for the architectural investieator the official record of titles to Ste.
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