Keywords: Photograph of the Norman Truss of the Amoureaux House in Ste Genevieve MO.jpg This is a 1940 photograph of the Norman Truss that holds up the roof of the Amoureaux House in Ste Geneviève Missouri The Amoureaux House sometimes called the Bauvais-Amoureux House was built in in 1793 in Ste Geneviève Missouri It was built by Benjamin Amoureaux who came from France It is currently operated as a museum by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources It is one of three <i>poteaux-en-terre</i> buildings that survive The others are the Bequet-Ribault House and the Vital St Gemme Beauvais House I 20 S Main Street Historic American Engineering Record National Park Service; Record MO-1113 1940 Piaget-van Ravenwaay Collection MO-1113 Amoureaux house Norman truss Roofs in the United States attics in the United States Historic American Buildings Survey of Missouri Black and white photographs of Missouri |