**APPLICATION FOR INCLUSION OF A PROPERTY**

**IN THE U.S. WORLD HERITAGE TENTATIVE LIST**

**\"French Creole properties of the Mid-Mississippi Valley Corridor\"\
**

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### Prerequisites for U.S. World Heritage Nominations

**Prerequisite 1 - Legal Requirements:**

**A. National Significance:**

Has the property been formally determined to be nationally significant
for its cultural values, natural values, or both (in other words, has it
been formally designated as a National Historic Landmark, a National
Natural Landmark, or as a Federal reserve of national importance, such
as a National Park, National Monument, or National Wildlife Refuge)? If
not, are there on-going processes to achieve any of the above
designations and what is their status? *(Listing in the National
Register of Historic Places is [not]{.underline} equivalent to National
Historic Landmark status.)*

YES: \_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_All of the properties included in the application are
National Historic Landmarks.

**B. Owner Concurrence:**

Are all the property owners aware of this proposal for the inclusion of
the property in the U.S. Tentative List and do all of the property
owners agree that it should be considered? If any agreement is uncertain
or tentative, or if the ownership situation is disputed, otherwise
complicated, or unclear, please explain the issues briefly.

YES: \_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_\_The owners of all of the properties included in the
application are aware that their properties are included , and agree
that their properties should be included in the application.

**C. Willingness to Discuss Protective Measures:**

If the property is nominated to the World Heritage List, it will be
necessary for all of the property owners to work with the Department of
the Interior to document fully existing measures to protect the property
and possibly to devise such additional measures as may be necessary to
protect the property in perpetuity. Are all the property owners willing
to enter into such discussions?

YES: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment: All of the owners are willing to enter into discussions to
improve protection.

**D. Scheduling:**

If you wish a property to be nominated to the World Heritage List in a
particular year during the period 2009-2019, please indicate the
reason(s) why and the earliest year in which you feel it will be
possible to meet all requirements for nomination

Preferred Year: \_\_\_\_No preferred
year.\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Reasons:
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**Prerequisite 2 - Specific Requirements for Nomination of Certain Types
of Properties:**

**E. Serial (multi-component) Properties:**

If you are proposing a nomination that includes separate components that
could be submitted separately over several years, do you believe that
the first property proposed would qualify to be placed on the World
Heritage List in its own right?

YES: \_\_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_The application involves a serial nomination of six separate
properties which we believe would qualify together for inscription on
the World Heritage List. While we believe this proposal is complete in
and of itself, we would not want to exclude the possibility of adding
additional qualifying properties in future to more fully portray the
outstanding universal value of this nomination

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**F. Serial (multi-component) Properties:**

Are you proposing this property as an extension of or a new component to
an existing World Heritage Site?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO \_\_\_x\_\_\_

Name of Existing Site:
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**Prerequisite 3 - Other Requirements:**

**G. Support of Stakeholders**

In addition to owners, please list other stakeholders and interested
parties who support the property's proposed inclusion in the Tentative
List. Also note any known to be opposed.

Supporters:\_

-   Governor Rod Blagojevich, Illinois

-   Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois

-   Senator Barak Obama, Illinois

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-   12^th^ U.S. Congressional District Representative:  Jerry Costello

-   58^th^ District State Senator:  David Luechtefeld

-   116^th^ District State Representative:  Dan Reitz

-   Congressman Russ Carnahan who represents Ste.\
    Genevieve County in his Congressional District is an ardent
    supporter\
    and has attended events with us and the French Ambassador.

-   Former Senator Jim Talent, defeated in the lections fall 2005, is
    another ardent supporter.

-   Missouri\'s Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.  

-   French Ambassador Jean Levitte visited Ste. Gen. fall 2006 with
    Congressman Carnahan and promised full French support through his
    Cultural Attache.

-   Missouri Preservation, a statewide organization

-   The French Heritage Society through its East Coast liaison with Ste.
    Genevieve, Jane Bernback;

-   St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission;

-   Missouri Tourism; Southwestern Illinois Tourism.

Opponents:\_Not aware of any opponents.

Comment:This proposal has been discussed many times with elected
officials and leaders in the two States, over several years, and has
gained strong support. The project also has the strong support of the
French Ambassador to the United States who has visited the properties.

**Information Requested about Applicant Properties**

**1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROPERTY OR PROPERTIES**

**1.a. Country:**

# United States of America

**1.b. State, Province or Region:**

In what State(s) and/or Territories is the property located? Also note
the locality and give a street address if one is available.

The application includes properties in both the States of Illinois and
Missouri.

In Illinois:

-   Fort de Chartres, R.R.2, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. (Managed by
    the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency).

-   Pierre Menard House, 4230 Kaskaskia Street,\
    Ellis Grove, Illinois. (Managed by the Illinois Historic
    Preservation Agency).

-   Church of the Holy Family, 116 Church Street, Cahokia, Illinois.
    (Part of the

> "Colonial Cahokia State Historic Sites", four Cahokia historic sites
> which include the Cahokia Courthouse (1740, but relocated several
> times), the Martin Boisamenue House (about 1790), and the Jarrt
> Mansion (1810 -- oldest brick building in Illinois) and the Church of
> the Holy Family Church (1799).

In Missouri:

-   The Felix Valle Historic Site, owned by the State  of\
    Missouri. (Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources) and which includes:

    -    the Felix Valle House, 198 Merchant St., Ste Genevieve,

    -    the  Bauvais Amoureux House, Ste Genevieve, 327 St. Mary Road,
        Ste. Genevieve.

-   The Guibord Valle House, , 4th & Merchant Streets Ste
    Genevieve. (Owned by the Foundation for the
    Restoration of Ste. Genevieve.)

-   The  Bolduc House, 123 S. Main St. Ste Genevieve. (Owned by the
    Missouri Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Ste Genevieve.). 

**1.c. Names of Property:**

What is the preferred or proposed name of the property or properties
proposed for nomination? If the site has multiple names, explain why you
chose the primary choice or choices.

**\"French Creole properties of the Mid-Mississippi Valley Corridor\"\
**

[Note]{.underline}: The Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture says that the word
"Creole" "derives from the Latin *creare*, meaning \"to beget\" or
\"create.\"   After the New World's discovery, Portuguese colonists used
the word *crioulo* to denote a New World slave of African descent. 
Eventually, the word was applied to all New World colonists, regardless
of ethnic origin, living along the Gulf Coast, especially in Louisiana. 
There the Spanish introduced the word as *criollo*, and during
Louisiana's colonial period (1699-1803) the evolving word *Creole*
generally referred to persons of African or European heritage born in
the New World." 

Many of the properties included in this application are described
locally as "creole" cottages, "creole buildings" or "creole
architecture". Here the word "creole" is being used to refer to those of
French descent, born in the new World, although the suffix French is not
being used. It is an important descriptor in this property name because
it signifies the importance of what those in the New World added to, or
modified of the French traditions that had travelled from France through
Canada to the Illinois Country.

***Naming of serial (multiple component) properties*.**

Group Name: **\"French Creole properties of the Mid-Mississippi Valley
Corridor\"\
**

**1.d.-e. Location, boundaries, and key features of the nominated
property**

Maps of individual properties are attached in an appendix at the end of
this document.

All of the component properties are located on much larger secure
properties controlled by public ownership (Fort de Chartres, Pierre
Menard House), or situated in historic districts where development is
carefully controlled (the case with the 4 Ste. Genevieve properties) or
set in a much larger privately controlled and secure enclave (Holy
Family Church). Hence the likelihood of adverse development negatively
affecting these properties is very, very limited.

**1.f. Area of nominated property (ha.)**

**[Names and addresses of component properties.]{.underline}**

In Illinois:

-   Fort de Chartres, R.R.2, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. (Managed by
    the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency).

-   Pierre Menard House, 4230 Kaskaskia Street,\
    Ellis Grove, Illinois. (Managed by the Illinois Historic
    Preservation Agency).

> Church of the Holy Family, 116 Church Street, Cahokia, Illinois.

In Missouri:

-   The Felix Valle Historic Site, owned by the State  of\
    Missouri. (Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources) and which includes:

    -    the Felix Valle House, 198 Merchant St., Ste Genevieve,

    -    the  Bauvais Amoureux House, Ste Genevieve, 327 St. Mary Road,
        Ste. Genevieve.

-   The Guibord Valle House, , 4th & Merchant Streets Ste
    Genevieve. (Owned by the Foundation for the
    Restoration of Ste. Genevieve.)

-   The  Bolduc House, 123 S. Main St. Ste Genevieve. (Owned by the
    Missouri Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Ste Genevieve.).

**Approximate areas of component properties**

Fort de Chartres: 1,100 acres

Pierre Menard House property:1.5 acres

Holy Family Church: 14 acres

Felix Valle House: 1.5 acres

Bauvais Amoureux House: 3.0 acres

Guibord Valle House: .5 acres

Bolduc House : .5 acres

**Total -- about 280 hectares**

**2. DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY OF THE PROPERTY**

**2.a. Description of the Property**

**[Background: development of the region]{.underline}**

The property which is the subject of this nomination application
includes a number of component properties which together tell the story
of early settlement in the Illinois-Missouri region by French settlers
from Canada. The French administrators of New France by the early 1670s
had begun to encourage western exploration intended to open up
passageways to the Pacific, and trade with the native Americans. Joliet
and Marquette's expedition of 1672 brought the French to the Mississippi
and established its southward course; within a decade the French led by
the Sieur de la Salle had reached the Gulf of Mexico and claimed
Louisiana territory (including the Mississippi and its tributaries) for
the French. By the end of the 17^th^ century, the French had set out to
solidify their territorial claims as a means of confining the English to
the eastern seaboard of the United States. This strategy involved
establishing settlements at Biloxi in 1699, and Mobile in 1701 on the
Gulf Coast and at Detroit at the northern end of the territory. In
between, early settlements were established at Cahokia in 1699, and des
Peres (within the confines of modern day St. Louis) in 1700, soon
abandoned for the strategic mission outpost of Kaskaskia founded in
1703.

By 1718, a renegade Scotsman in the Court of France (John Law) had
gained a royal patent for the Company of the West, soon to become the
Company of the Indies, and had negotiated to wrest administrative
control of the Illinois Country from Canadian hands. The Company's
officials established other settlements to enable them to further trade
including New Orleans (1718) and Fort de Chartres (1719), which served
as the administrative headquarters of French efforts to manage the
Illinois Country for over 40 years. These settlements were soon joined
by other villages on the eastern side of the Mississippi such as the
mining community of St. Philippe (1720), and Prairie du Rocher,
established in 1722.

The first settlement built on the west bank of the Mississippi was Ste
Genevieve established in about 1750 near the site of a long used salt
springs. The second settlement established west of the Mississippi was
St. Louis, established in about 1763, in the midst of efforts to
transfer control of the French Louisiana Territory (to the west of the
Mississippi River) to the Spanish, in accord with the Treaty of Paris
ending the Seven Years War. The fortunes of the Company of the Indies
flagged and waned quickly, and by 1731, Louisiana had been passed back
to the Royal Court. Also, at this time, the land to the east of the
Mississippi (also part of what was loosely called Illinois Country) was
passed from French control to British.

By 1787, [Cahokia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia%2C_Illinois),
had become one of the important permanent settlements in the region and
in 1801, was named the seat of St. Clair County in the [Northwest
Territory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory), itself
enlarged to extend to the Canadian border. By the early 19^th^ century,
Kaskaskia had become the capital of the [Illinois
Territory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Territory),
([1809](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1809)-[1818](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1818))
, and was later to become the first capital of the State of Illinois,
([1818](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1818)-[1820](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820)).

Ste Genevieve residents, after devastating floods in the 1770s and 1780s
moved their community to higher ground, and the new site had been
legally established by the mid 1790s.

While the near century long occupation of the Illinois Country did not
afford the French the trade profits they sought, they had indeed
succeeded in their efforts to confine the English in the lands to the
east for over a century, and had built a strong base for continuing
settlement of the interior of the continent..

**[Relations of component properties to regional development and
history]{.underline}**

The component properties included in the application reflect key moments
in the development of the French settlements in the Illinois country.
The three properties in Illinois represent key stages in the development
of the French occupation of the east bank of the river: the thrice
re-built and partly reconstructed Fort de Chartres was once the
administrative capital of the French lands; the Holy Family Church in
Cahokia, also rebuilt. represents the early presence of the Catholic
Church in the expanding French dominions; the Pierre Menard House, built
in 1802 for Quebec born merchant Pierre Menard, who was to become the
first Lieutenant Governor of the new State of Illinois in 1818, is a
free standing outlying remnant of the original settlement of Kaskaskia
village, built originally across the river on Kaskaskia Island, later to
become the Capital of the Illinois Country, and in the late 19^th^
century, fully inundated and destroyed by the Mississippi River.

The houses in Ste Genevieve reflect the later efforts of French settlers
to build a strong community on the west bank of the Mississippi in the
period after the Illinois country passed to the Spanish. This territory
passed back to the French (1800) and finally under Jefferson to American
ownership with the Louisiana Purchase (1803). The properties included in
the application straddle these important transition years. These include
the 1790s Bolduc House, which may include some fragments of an earlier
Bolduc house built in 1770 in the first town site of Ste Genevieve near
the agricultural lands of the community, the "Grand Champ". The Bauvais
Amoureux House also built facing the "Grand Champ", once a part of the
"breadbasket of the Illinois country"and still extant today, in 1792. In
the heart of Ste Genevieve stand the Guibord Valle House built in 1806,
after the Louisiana Purchase had passed Ste Genevieve to American hands,
but still strongly reflecting French influences in its design form and
unique Norman style truss, and the Felix Valle House, built in 1818 in
an American "federal style" as both store and residence, but employing
French masonry construction..

Which features or aspects of the property do you believe qualify it for
the World Heritage List?

In simple terms, the individual properties which make up the property
proposed for World Heritage nomination in this property, tell different
aspects of the story of efforts by the French throughout the 18^th^
century to develop and settle the interior of the North American
continent. The properties selected well illustrate epochs and places
important in both the mercantile and administrative development of what
was initially called the Illinois Country and which today are located in
modern day Illinois and Missouri. All of the structures chosen are
accessible to the public, and all property owners are in full agreement
with this proposal to nominate these individual properties within a
single serial nomination to the USA World Heritage Tentative List.

What are the important present or proposed uses of the property and how
do they compare with the traditional or historic uses of it?

Only the Holy Family Church in Cahokia serves the purposes for which it
was built, that is, as a place of worship for its Roman Catholic
parishioners. All of the other houses are no longer residences but today
function essentially as "historic sites" managed and preserved to pass
significant historic messages and stories to those who visit them.

**2.b. History and Development of the Property**

**Note: Since section 2(a) includes an historical overview of the
development of the region, this section will look at the details of the
historical development of component properties.**

**[Fort de Chartres]{.underline}**,

The current Fort de Chartres, named after Louis, Duc de Chartres, son of
the Regent of France, built in stone and enclosing 4 acres, is the third
on the present site, and dates from the 1750s. The first two forts,
built in 1720 and in 1725, were modest wooden palisades with flanking
bastions at the four corners, enclosing a small number of buildings. In
spite of the failure of the Company of the Indies, France felt it
important to establish a permanent fort (in masonry) to help stabilize
conditions for trade, and chose the site of the earlier wooden forts to
do this rather to build in Kaskaskia, a location favoured by many. The
British took control of the Fort in 1763 following the end of the Seven
Years War, and renamed it Fort Cavendish, only to abandon it in the
1770s, following incursions by the Mississippi River.

By 1900, most of the building materials had been salvaged for use in
other structures, but for the powder magazine, built in 1754 and which
had survived relatively intact through more than a century of neglect.
This may be the oldest standing building in Illinois.

The fort is an early example of publically funded reconstruction.
Acquired by the State of Illinois in 1913 for its historical and
archaeological importance, the WPA rebuilt the entrance gate to the fort
in the 1920s, and slightly later (1928, 1934) two principal buildings in
stone, as well as over time reconstructing various bastions, musket
ports and embrasures in stone. A number of structures have more recently
been framed in wood to suggest or "ghost" their earlier forms, without
full rebuilding.

**[Pierre Menard House,]{.underline}**

Sitting at the foot of the bluffs leading down from the remains of Fort
Kaskaskia, the Pierre Menard Home is an excellent example of an early
19^th^ century building employing French forms, construction techniques
and details. Pierre Menard (1766-1844), born in St. Antoine sur
Richelieu, in French Canada, had migrated to the region in 1791 from
modern day Quebec, attracted to the Illinois Territory by the trading
opportunities in place for a young entrepreneur. His house employs the
French vernacular construction which had been in use throughout the
18^th^ century in the Illinois country and whose use would continue into
the 19^th^ century for at least several decades. His structure is
*poteaux sur solle* (post on sill), that is, timber frame construction
employing closely spaced vertical uprights mortised and tenoned into
plate above and sill below, and pegged in place. Interstices are filled
with various forms of *bousillage*: insulating combinations of mud and
twigs. The main house is accompanied with a number of outbuildings: a
kitchen connected by a stone walkway to the main house, a spring house,
a smoke house, and a carriage house, all still existing. It also
included slave quarters built at the foot of the bluffs behind the
house, but these have now all vanished.

Menard, as his house indicates, prospered quickly, and soon was seeking
public office. By 1812, he had been elected President of the first
Illinois territorial legislature. Later tasked with writing the
Constitution for the new State of Illinois, in 1813, he became the
State\'s first Lieutenant Governor -- but only after the Constitution
was amended to allow foreign born officers resident for at least two
years.. Menard built his home across the river from the original village
of Kaskaskia and his home is today one of the last tangible testimonies
of the role played by Kaskaskia in the development of territorial
government.

**[Church of the Holy Family,]{.underline}**

The Holy Family Parish Log Church in Cahokia, Illinois was first
established in 1699 by a French Catholic missionary from Quebec, Father
St. Cosme. The first log church and its log successor, built in 1730,
were both destroyed by fire. Construction of the present log church was
begun immediately but the finished church was not dedicated until 1799.
A number of religious objects which survived the fires have been
preserved, among them a chalice used by Pope John Paul II during his
visit to the site.

The church was built employing the typical French vernacular
architectural structure of the era, *poteaux-sur-solle* (post-on-sill).
The verticals are understood to be durable walnut posts fitted into
grooved mortises in horizontal plates and sills. The roof structure
consists of heavy oak rafters, covered over by cypress clapboards and
sycamore shingles all pegged together, as are all the framed elements of
the building. Clapboarded in 1913, memory of the log church was lost
until 1949, when Father Joseph Mueller discovered what lay behind the
clapboard; this discovery prompted a restoration project, carried out in
time for the parish's 250th anniversary.  

**[Ste Genevieve, Missouri]{.underline}**

The four houses included in the application and named below are set in
Ste Genevieve, a small community which holds the greatest concentration
of 18^th^ and early 19^th^ century French built vertical timber frame
houses in the United States, indeed in all of North America, including
the modern day province of Quebec.

The date of 1735 has been popularly associated with Ste. Genevieve\'s
founding and while some structures may have existed at that time within
the original townsite of Ste Genevieve in the Mississippi flood plain,
the village of Ste. Genevieve was probably not established until 1750.
Ste Genevieve was the first permanent European settlement established on
the west bank of the Mississippi, set in what is now the state of
Missouri. Originally established to function as a trading outpost, the
hardy community survived increasing episodes of disastrous flooding as
the 18^th^ century wore on and by the 1780s, most residents were
shifting their houses to higher ground. The new community of Ste
Genevieve, formally established in the 1790s, thrived and attracted
those involved with the mining of lead and farming as well as with
trade. The French influence on building continued through the years of
Spanish occupation which followed the Treaty of Paris and the cession of
lands to the west of the Mississippi. With the Louisiana Purchase of
1803, ownership of these lands was acquired from the French (who had
reacquired the lands from the Spanish in 1800), and from that point on,
the century old influence of the French began to wane and new buildings
were generally built in brick in various American styles.

As noted above, this application includes four buildings open to the
public in modern day Ste Genevieve, and which represent the various
phases of the transition from the French period through to the American.
These four buildings are described below:

**[The Felix Valle House]{.underline}**

The Felix Valle House was built in 1818 by Jacob Philipson, to
accommodate a mercantile enterprise and associated residence. Marking
the beginning of a departure from wood frame buildings of French style
and construction, the structure was built in stone in a simple Federal
style. The house passed to Jean Baptiste Vallé in 1824, and then to his
son Felix in 1835, who occupied it throughout the 19^th^ century with
his wife Odile-Celeste Pratte (1805 - 1894).

**[The  Bauvais Amoureux House]{.underline}**

The  Bauvais Amoureux House, facing *le grand champ*, the agricultural
fields of colonial Ste. Genevieve, still in place, very much evokes the
character of late 18^th^ c. and early 19^th^ century Ste Genevieve
through its close connection to the surrounding landscape. The house,
built in 1792, by Jean Baptiste Ste Gemme Bauvais provides a rare
illustration of the *poteaux en terre* French vernacular construction,
much rarer than the *poteaux sur solle* of most of the early houses
included in this application. Here, employing a fairly crude
construction technology, the upright timbers are set directly into an
excavated earthen trench, rather than into a timber sill straddling a
stone foundation. Some reports claim that only five such buildings are
known in the United States (and variously that two - or three - of these
are in Ste Genevieve).

**[The Guibord Valle House ]{.underline}**

The Guibord Valle House was built by Jacques Guibord, a French citizen
who arrived in the Illinois Territory via St. Domingues. Espaping from
an uprising there, he migrated north to Ste Genevieve. Acquiring the
land on which the house sits in 1799 by virtue of a Spanish land grant,
he married Ursule Barbeau, of Prairie du Rocher across the river in
modern day Illinois, and by 1806 had begun the house which still stands
today. The house is built in the local vernacular *poteaux sur solle*
fashion, and includes an unusual example of a French medieval roof truss
form. The house was acquired by Jules Felix Valle (a descendant of
Francois Valle, first commandant of Ste Genevieve) in 1831. In time, the
property came to include an enclosed garden of particular character and
beauty.

**[The  Bolduc House]{.underline}**

It has long been claimed that the the Louis Bolduc House was built in
1770 within the original Ste Genevieve town site by Louis Bolduc, a
Canadian merchant and businessman, and moved, at least in part, after
the great flood of 1783 from the original townsite, then in the process
of being abandoned, to the heart of the current site of Ste Genevieve ,
where it presently sits. The house is a restored example of the French
vernacular construction methods already described: *poteaux sur solle*
construction , and encircling hipped roof and galleries. The house was
restored to its original appearance, including reinstatement of a
surrounding wooden stockade, in 1956-57 with the support of the National
Society of Colonial Dames. Investigations during the restoration work,
and later dendrochronology testing suggest that the house dates to the
early 1790s. .

It is worthy of note that the restoration of this house was directed by
Dr. Ernest Allan Connelly, later an Associate Director of the National
Park Service and the Secretary-General of ICOMOS when the World Heritage
Convention was first being implemented in 1978. . This project is
credited by many as being one of the first American efforts to restore a
house for its architectural importance, rather than its historical
importance.

**2.c. Boundary Selection**

The boundary of the property which is the subject of this application is
the sum of the boundaries of the component properties of the proposed
serial nomination. These individual component property boundaries
correspond to the legal limits of ownership registered on title for each
property, and which therefore provide assurance of control within the
component properties.
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Are all the elements and features that are related to the site's
significance included inside the proposed boundaries?

YES: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

If no, please explain: Yes: The essential story of the French settlement
of the Illinois Territory is well and completely told by the selected
components of the proposed serial inscription. Other features could
certainly be added in time to enrich and extend this story, but at
present, as previously noted, this selection reflects the different
phases of the French development of the territory set within all of the
major French period settlements of modern day Illinois and Missouri ,
and accommodated within houses and structures accessible to the public,
and whose owners are very much in support of the application and
eventual nomination of the overall property to the World Heritage List.

Are there any enclaves or inholdings within the property and, if so, do
they contain uses or potential uses contrary to the conservation or
preservation of the site as a whole?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_

If yes, please explain:
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**3. JUSTIFICATION FOR INSCRIPTION IN THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST**

**3.a. Criteria under which inscription is proposed**

> *(ii)exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of
> time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in
> architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or
> landscape design;*
>
> \_x\_\_\_ This criterion applies to the property I am proposing
>
> Reason:\_The property which is the subject of this application
> exhibits the influence of French thinking and ideas in shaping the
> interior of the North American continent, and in turn demonstrates how
> French motifs and ideas were adapted to prevailing local conditions
> for about a century and emerged as Creole expression..
>
> *(iii)bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural
> tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has
> disappeared;*
>
> \_\_x\_\_ This criterion applies to the property I am proposing
>
> Reason:\_\_The property which is the subject of the application_bears
> an exceptional testimony to the colonial traditions of France and
> associated efforts to bring French civilization to the interior of the
> North American continent.
>
> *(iv)be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or
> technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant
> stage(s) in human history;*
>
> \_\_x\_\_ This criterion applies to the property I am proposing
>
> Reason:\_The structures included in the application are outstanding
> examples of French vernacular wood frame building construction
> technology in the New World, imported from France, generally through
> Canada, and adapted to local conditions, and reflective of the period
> during the 18^th^ century when the French sought to establish dominion
> over the Louisiana and Illinois countries along the Mississippi and
> its tributaries for trading purposes, and the development of a
> continent.

**3.b. Proposed statement of outstanding universal value**

**[Statement of Outstanding Universal Value]{.underline}**

This property embodies the bold and ambitious efforts of the French,
working directly, and through their Canadian agents to develop the
interior of the North American continent, open it up for trade and
settlement, and to imprint French civilization over a vast extent of the
then unknown and remote New World wilderness, over more than a century,
from the 1670s through the early 19^th^ century. The property
illustrates the application of French know-how and technology to the
solving of mercantile, military and administrative problems in the
oversight of a continent, and how in turn, French approaches were
adapted to local circumstances ultimately melding within, shaping and
informing the development of American approaches to, and mechanisms for
the management of the burgeoning continent. The Creole structures
contained within the nominated serial property are outstanding examples
of French vernacular wood frame building construction technology
imported to the New World, from France, generally through Canada, and
adapted to local conditions. Their forms, design and structure are
reflective of a period (the 18^th^ century) when the French sought to
establish dominion over the Louisiana and Illinois countries along the
Mississippi and its tributaries. The component properties of this
nomination should be preserved in the authenticity of their materials,
details, and spatial organization, and in the integrity of their setting
to ensure that the imprint of this story of courage, foresight and
endeavour in the New World can continue to be studied, and inspire
present and future citizens of contemporary Missouri and Illinois, home
to these remarkable and worthy early efforts. Their associations with
the leaders of this century long effort (the Menards, the Valles, the
Bolducs, and many others) to provide an organizing framework for the
transplant of European (French) ideas to the New World, are important to
recognize and maintain in all operations designed to preserve these
properties and present them to the public.

**[Commentary]{.underline}**

It has been stated on many occasions by regional scholars that the story
of the French efforts to settle and command the development of the
interior of a continent is told in a truly remarkable way by the
surviving French structures of Ste Genevieve, unparalleled in their
concentration, and in their quality elsewhere in North America. Linking
many of the key structures of Ste Genevieve, with key French period
structures in Illinois strengthens this application immensely, allowing
the proposed nomination to link historic sites critical to understanding
the development of two States, and to understand how these sites expose
key themes in stimulating the growth, mercantile development and orderly
administration of this immense territory.

Concerning the role of Ste Genevieve in telling the story of the French
in this territory, Janet Snyder Matthews, Associate Director for
Cultural Resources, National Park Service, Department of the Interior,
in a statement made in hearings on the suitability of Bill S. 323 on
April 2006, noted that the bill would authorize the Secretary to
complete a study on the suitability and feasibility of designating the
French Colonial Heritage Area as a unit of the National Park System. She
noted that the area under consideration -- which contains all of the
properties included in this application -- "contains some of the only
existing examples of the French Colonial Period settlement, including
two of the five poteaux-en-terre (post-in-the-ground) vertical log
French buildings remaining in North America, dating from circa 1785, in
addition to several other important historical resources. The Area is
located within the expanded boundaries of Ste. Genevieve National
Historic District (District), a National Historic Landmark. **No current
National Park System unit has comparable historic features providing the
cultural backdrop required to adequately interpret the story of the
early French in the New World."**

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**3.c. Comparison of proposed property to similar or related properties
(including state of preservation of similar properties)**

There are many studies of the various forms of French architectural
expression in the New World. (A number of works which touch these
questions indirectly and directly are included below). It is necessary
however before exploring these to be clear about the framework to be
used for comparison.

The starting point for comparative analysis of this proposed nomination
involves defining what the property represents. What is the set of
similar expressions that we can usefully compare this property to? All
examples of French building outside France? All French efforts at
colonization globally? Or something more local? Given the primary focus
of this proposed nomination, that is, the reflections of the efforts of
the French to colonize the interior of the North American continent, the
most useful comparisons are those with other French efforts and groups
to achieve similar goals in North America. Hence the analysis below
looks at comparable pockets of development of French buildings, within
the same time span (approximately the 18^th^ century), across North
America (directed toward the development of a continent by a colonizing
group, and employing the same general wood frame structural vernacular
(poteaux sur sole, poteaux en terre) derived from precedent in Normandy,
passed to Canada and beyond.

The heartland of the French efforts to settle North America is in Quebec
province where seven million French speaking Quebecers today occupy land
settled from the 1500s onward by those from France seeking opportunity
in the New World. The cultural heritage of Quebec is remarkably distinct
and very much the object of conscious and well supported preservation
efforts. However only a very limited number of 18^th^ century wooden
vertical timber structures are known to exist at present in the entire
province - probably less than half a dozen. The best known of these --
the Lamontagne House in Rimouski -- is illustrated herein. It seems in
general, that the harsh winters in Quebec, combined with fears of fire
quickly moved builders to a preference for building in masonry. And for
reasons not so clear, when building in wood, the French soon evinced a
preference for piece-sur-piece -- the use of horizontal logs grooved
into mortises in widely separated vertical posts. While this building
technique -- invented in the New World -- was spread by the voyageurs
across North America by the fur trade -- and may be found in from New
Brunswick to British Columbia, no such examples may be found in the
lllinois Country.

French settlement was also very active in the part of the Canadian
Maritimes known as Acadia (modern day Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick),
prior to the so-called Acadian expulsion of 1751, which resulted in the
forcible deportation of many thousand Acadians to New Orleans and its
immediate the vicinity -- the people today we call "cajuns". Until
recently, pre-Acadian architectural expression in Canada was thought to
have been entirely lost. However in the past 20 years, a number of
Maritime buildings or partial buildings have been "discovered" to have
Acadian structures -- usually vertical timber structures, covered up by
horizontal wooden cladding. One of the best known of these is the Adams
Ritchie House, in Annapolis Royal, (Nova Scotia), recently restored to
its later 1785 two storey English Georgian appearance, but containing
within it at ground level, a one storey 1710 vertical timber structure.

The numbers of surviving 18^th^ c.timber frame buildings of French
inspiration in Canada are dwarfed by the numbers of such structures to
be found in the United States, in the area covered by this proposition
(Illinois- Missouri), and to the south, in the former Louisiana
territory. The concentration of such 18th c.- early 19^th^ c. French
structures in Ste Genevieve alone exceeds those to be found in Canada by
a factor of 10 or more.

French buildings and structures were created as part of the efforts of
France to develop trade in the interior of the North American continent.
Most of these early structures have long since disappeared, been
replaced in recent years by modern symbolic reconstructions or have lost
their original historic context.

-   The first French settlement in the Mississippi Valley was Fort
    Maurepas, a wooden palisaded fort, established in 1699, near modern
    day Ocean Springs, Mississippi, around which the early village of
    Biloxi grew up. The Fort was the first capital of French Louisiana
    for only two years, and was abandoned in 1702. A modern
    reconstruction of the Fort near the Bay of Biloxi is a tourist
    attraction and serves as a reminder of the first French settlement
    on the Mississippi.

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-   Present day Mobile which was the capital of French Louisiana for 9
    years at the beginning of the 18^th^ century contains little more
    than place names to recall its early history. A bicentennial
    reconstruction of mid 18^th^ c. Fort Conde serves as a visitor
    centre for Mobile today.

-   [Fort Pontchartrain du
    Détroit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Detroit), was founded by
    [French](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France) officer [Antoine de la
    Mothe
    Cadillac](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_la_Mothe_Cadillac)in 1701.
    The settlement, on the north bank of the Detroit River offered
    protection to French ships and traders on the [Great
    Lakes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes), and .prospered for
    60 years until surrendered to British Major [Robert
    Rogers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rogers_(soldier)) on
    [November 29](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_29),
    [1760](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1760). In 1796, Detroit passed
    to the [United States](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States)
    under the [Jay Treaty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Treaty) but
    in 1805, fire destroyed most of the settlement and all structures
    from the period of its French origins.

-   A full reconstruction of Fort Toulouse (1717) also in Alabama at the
    eastern extremity of the Louisiana Territory was created following
    excavation of the site in the 1970s.The 1751 rebuilding of this fort
    was planned by engineer Francis Saucier, also responsible for
    rebuilding Fort de Chartres.

-   New Orleans has continuously developed since its founding in 1718
    and continues to do so today, following the disastrous flooding
    associated with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In spite of the
    continuous pace of urban intensification, a number of "Creole
    cottages" remain as testimonies of 18^th^ century French building
    practices similar to those included within the proposed nomination.
    These are now relatively isolated within the Vieux Carre, and the
    adjacent Faubourg Marigny, but are still of high interest; these
    include the well known "Lafitte Blacksmith Shop" probably a
    residence of the 1770s, and "Madame John's Legacy" at 632 Dumaine
    Street, also a late 18^th^ c. structure, both in the Vieux Carre.

The historic town of Natchitoches, Louisiana has a legitimate claim
however to early French origins and a great number of intact structures
able to provide testimony to some of that early history. Natchitoches
was founded in 1714 within a village inhabited by a group of
Natchitoches Indians, as a bulwark against Spanish incursions into the
territory. The village, set on the Red River, soon thrived as a trading
centre, and eventually became after New Orleans the second busiest port
in the Louisiana Territory. But when the Red River changed course in the
early 19^th^ century, the town lost its commercial vitality. The slow
pace of development has allowed many of the town's early historic
structures to survive. Among structures recalling the 19^th^ century
period of French efforts to control the interior of the continent are
the following:

-   The Wells House (1776), a one story *poteaux sur solle* house, and
    certainly one of the oldest houses in the Louisiana Territory.

-   The Chamard Dunahoe house, second half of the 18^th^ century, with
    French vertical timber construction and some external American
    features -- a house in transition.

-   The mid 19^th^ century Badin-Roque House, the only *poteaux en
    terre* structure in Louisiana.

-   The Roque House, built in the early 19^th^ century, in *colombage*
    with brick infill, moved to Natchitoches from Bermuda, several miles
    away, in 1967.

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-   The Prudhomme Roquier House of the early 19^th^ century, an unusual
    two story *bousillage* house, later clothed in a Greek Revival
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-   A 1979 reconstruction of Fort St. Jean Baptiste first constructed in
    1716,. This reconstruction is not on its original site.

In Natchitoches, the thirty-three block Historic District of
[Natchitoches](http://www.explorenatchitoches.com/colonial.php?task=view&articleID=82),
which includes more than fifty centuries-old buildings, has been
designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the
Interior. As well, the Cane River National Heritage Area (116,000 acres)
contains many early French structures including later Creole
plantations.

The Cajun French past of Louisiana is also present, in cities such as
Lafayette, founded in the 1770s by the Acadians exiled from Canada, and
settlements such as St. Martinville, founded before the Acadian
arrvival. Much of the early French vernacular has been collected and
moved to open air museums outside Lafayette. However this chapter of the
French past is quite distinct from the efforts elsewhere to strengthen
and solidify the French presence throughout the territory.

In conclusion, in comparing structures and settlements which tell the
story of 18^th^ c. and early 19^th^ c, French presence and expansion
through the interior of the North American continent, the properties
selected for inclusion in this application comprise an exemplary set of
buildings and structures capable of telling that story. It would be
possible to consider adding additional structures to this proposal,
particularly from New Orleans and Natchitoches but in general, even in
Natchitoches which has a large concentration of French period buildings,
such buildings do not represent those associated with the leadership of
the French during this period to the same extent as those properties
which form the subject of this nomination.

*Also please make note of any major works that evaluate the property in
comparison to similar properties anywhere else in the world.*

The following references offer commentary which assist in making these
comparisons. None of these however directly evaluate the property under
consideration to other similar properties elsewhere in the world. The
property under consideration is a serial nomination created for the
purpose of possible World Heritage inscription and comprises a unique
selection of component properties not previously assembled for purposes
of comparison.

BELTING, Natalia Maree. **Kaskaskia Under the French Regime**. Southern
Illinois University Press. 1948- 1976. 140 p.

BROWN, Margaret K. **The Voyageur in the Illinois Country**. Centre for
French Colonial Studies, Number 3. 2002. 38 p.

Commission des biens culturels du Québec. **Répertoire des motifs des
biens classés et reconnus.** Québec, 2003. s.p.

FOLEY, William E. **The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to
Statehood.** University of Missouri Press. Columbia and London. 1989.
367 p.

GAGNON, Paul. **« Maison Lamontagne »**. Commission des biens culturels
du Québec. **Les chemins de la mémoire. Monuments et sites historiques
du Québec. Tome I.** Québec, Les Publications du Québec, 1990, p. 512

.\
LESSARD, Michel et Gilles VILANDRÉ.**La maison traditionnelle au Québec.
Construction, inventaire, restauration.**Montréal, Les Éditions de
l\'Homme, 1974.493p.

LESSARD, Michel et.MARQUIS, Huguette. **Encylopedie de la Maison
Quebecoise.**

Montréal, Les Éditions de l\'Homme, 1972. 728p.

KATZ, Ron**, French America.** French Heritage Society. EDM, Singapore,
2004. 224 p

**\_**

NAEGER, Bill and Patti, and EVANS, Mark L. **Ste. Genevieve: A Leisurely
Stroll Through History.** Merchant Street Publishing. Ste Genevieve.
1999. 226 p.

PETERSON, Charles E. **Colonial St. Louis.** The Patrice Press: Tuscon.
2001.

RICHARDSON, A. J. H.. **A Comparative Historical Study of Timber
Building in Canada** *Bulletin of the Association for Preservation
Technology*, Vol. 5, No. 3. (1973), pp 77-102.

ROBITAILLE, Andre. **Habiter La Nouvelle France. 1534-1648**. MNH:
Quebec. 1996.

THURMAN, Melvin D. **Building a House in 18^th^ Century Ste.
Genevieve.** 1984. Pendragon's Press. Ste Genevieve. 28 p.

***<http://www.patrimoineculturel.gouv.qc.ca/RPCQ//recherche.do?methode=detailBien&bienId=92664>***
Repertoire du patrimoine culturel du Quebec. Maison Lamontagne,
Rimouski, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec.

**3.d. Integrity and/or Authenticity**

[Authenticity]{.underline}: Does the property retain its original
design, materials, workmanship and setting?\_

YES: \_\_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_The property in general retains its authenticity.

Authenticity is looked for in the World Heritage Operational Guidelines
in terms of design, materials, workmanship and setting, use, tradition,
language, spirit and other factors. It should also be noted that
authenticity is not necessarily conceived by the World Heritage
Committee to be linked exclusively to the original state of the
heritage, rather to the degree to which the attributes associated with
the property can be understood to faithfully (credibly, truthfully,
honestly, genuinely, etc.) carry the identified values. "Attributes" may
be understood to refer to those factors of design, materials,
workmanship and setting, use, tradition, spirit referred to above.
Authenticity does not need to reside in all attribute areas, but only in
those which are significant carriers of a property's outstanding
universal value.

It is worth however looking at authenticity in relation to each of the
component properties in turn. In general, as all the properties but one
are historic sites of one kind or another, currently mandated to tell
the story of French settlement in the Illinois territory, and the
exception, the Holy Family Church, fully functional as a place of faith,
also very consciously presents its history to visitors, authenticity
analysis has something to do with measuring the degree to which the
setting, the chosen design forms and surviving historic materials
faithfully reflect the stories attributed to the properties.

**[Fort de Chartres]{.underline}**. Fort de Chartres would be viewed by
some as a reconstruction and hence ineligible for inclusion on the World
Heritage List. (The Operational Guidelines note that "In relation to
authenticity, the reconstruction of archaeological remains or historic
buildings or districts is justifiable only in exceptional circumstances.
Reconstruction is acceptable only on the basis of complete and detailed

documentation and to no extent on conjecture"). The development of the
reconstructed portions of Fort de Chartres were however undertaken with
extreme care. In situ remains were carefully stabilized and their
identity preserved within reconstruction work; the early reconstruction
work is itself of sufficient age (80 years or so) that it provides
telling historic testimony of early efforts to recognize important
history in the USA. Later reconstruction work has been in an indicative
style providing building outlines to "suggest" earlier forms but not
involving full recreation of vanished forms and materials. And all
surviving 18^th^ c. material including the single surviving building ,
the powder magazine, itself the oldest European built structure in
Illinois, have been carefully preserved, stabilized and where necessary
(as with the powder magazine) restored. In summary, I think the
exceptional circumstances noted by the Operational Guidelines are
sufficiently present here to justify the inclusion of this property
within the nomination.

**[Pierre Menard House]{.underline}**

The Pierre Menard House and the several outbuildings on the property
have been very carefully restored by the State Of Illinois Historic
Preservation Agency to portray the property as it was during the
lifetime of Pierre Menard.

**[Church of the Holy Family,]{.underline}**

The Church of the Holy Family was restored more than 50 years ago to
expose the original construction techniques of the 1799 structure, and
today offers an authentic image of the church when first constructed.
Most of the original structural timber members of roof and walls are
still in place.

**[The "Felix Valle Historic Site" owned by the State  of\
Missouri. and which includes:]{.underline}**

**[The Felix Valle House,]{.underline}**

This house has been restored to its appearance in about 1830, to the
period when it was occupied by Jean Baptiste Vallé, during the period
when he was in business with Pierre Menard, (builder and owner of the
Pierre Menard House across the river in then-Kaskaskia). The restoration
has been carefully carried out to incorporate significant amounts of
original material, including the floor and ceiling of the original
ground floor store, and responds to evidence uncovered during the
research phase of work which helped restorers recreate store shelves and
fittings. .

**[The Bauvais Amoureux House.]{.underline}**

The Bauvais Amoureux House is one of the most authentic representations
of a surviving late 18^th^ century French house in the country. Occupied
by the Bauvais family for about 60 years, it passed in 1852 to Benjamin
Amoureux whose family held it for about 80 years. The Missouri Dept. of
Natural Resources, over time, has carried out removal of some additions,
and alteration of later changes to bring the property closer to its
original appearance and layout, and to knit together surviving original
materials including the poteaux en terre structure, the medieval
"Norman" roof truss, and the ground floor beams spanning the full width
of the house. All of this work has been carried out very carefully
exposing the original to the extent possible, given the relative
uniqueness of what the building portrays.

**The Guibord Valle House**

The Guibord Valle House has been carefully conserved to reflect both the
French construction features of the original house including the
so-called Norman truss roof, and some original casement windows, and
also the period when it was occupied by the Jules Felix Valle family
after 1831 when it was one of the most elegantly furnished houses in Ste
Genevieve.

**[The  Bolduc House]{.underline}**

The Louis Bolduc House, built possibly in the 1770s and re-built in the
1780s in the second town of Ste Genevieve, was occupied by the same
family until 1949. The restoration work carried out in 1956-57 by the
National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Missouri
is often reported to be one of the best examples of restoration of a
French colonial house in the Mississippi Valley, perhaps because of the
hands on involvement of Dr. Ernest Allan Connally.. The house has been
restored to its original appearance in the 1770s, and provides an
authentic depiction of the appearance of French houses and their
construction technologies in the original town of Ste Genevieve, and the
early stages of the development of the relocated town. .

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[Integrity]{.underline}: Do the authentic material and spatial evidence
inside the proposed boundaries remain in sufficient quantity to convey
the full significance of the site? To tell the full story of why the
site is outstanding? Is the integrity weakened by the intrusion of
discordant and/or abundant elements or buildings that are unrelated to
the significance and detract from the visual unity of the place?

YES: \_\_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_\_The integrity of the property is generally well retained.

Integrity in relation to cultural heritage, as described in the
Operational Guidelines may be understood to relate to" intactness" (is
it in good condition?) and "wholeness" (are all the components necessary
to convey significance of the property present?).

[Wholeness]{.underline}:

Wholeness is best looked at for a serial inscription by looking at the
relationship between the nominated property as a whole, and its
component parts. The question here has to do with the degree to which
the component properties can be understood together to tell the story of
French efforts over a century, beginning from a base in Canada, to open
up the central part of North America to trade, and colonization. The
component properties have been chosen very carefully to represent
different phases of those efforts -- from the beginnings in Cahokia
(Holy Family Church) and Fort de Chartres, to evidence of mercantile
consolidation in the Pierre Menard House and the growth and development
of Ste Genevieve. The properties selected also tell the story of the
adaptation of French ways of building to New World circumstances,
ranging from properties quite faithful to their architectural
antecedents, to those which display galleries and roof forms intended to
ameliorate the impact of warm and humid summers, to those in transition
to American styles and ways of building, As well, the properties chosen
all play roles or are linked to places (Fort de Chartres, Cahokia,
Kaskaskia) which have played important roles in territorial
administration. It would be possible to add other communities, places
and landscapes which complement this story, but the selected properties
described in this application all play key roles in illustrating that
story.

[Intactness]{.underline}:

Intactness is best looked at for the property by assessing the condition
of the component properties. In this instance with all properties in
public ownership or quasi-public ownership, it can be stated that that
all are generally an exemplary state of repair and hence "intact".

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How do authenticity and integrity compare for this property?

Both authenticity and integrity are strongly present for all of the
properties which are the subject of this application.
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[Repairs:]{.underline} If repairs have been made, were they carried out
using traditional materials and methods? If yes, please discuss. If not,
please explain the methods used and why.

YES: \_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_Repairs have been continuously made in relation to the
ongoing maintenance of all of the component properties. Given their
recognized historic importance, and equally the recognized fragility of
their constituent historic materials, repairs have been made with a very
high degree of consciousness of the value of using traditional methods
and skills to the extent possible. The traditional materials in all the
properties (in particular the traditional timber in use) have been
carefully studied, species ascertained, traditional working methods
studied and to the extent possible, re-utilised going back half a
century or more. .
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**4. STATE OF PRESERVATION AND FACTORS AFFECTING THE PROPERTY**

**4.a. Present state of preservation of the property**

What is the present state of preservation of the property (including its
physical condition and preservation measures in place)?

The present state of preservation of the component properties is very
high. All have maintenance budgets and access to skilled workers and
craftsmen capable of repairing and stabilizing as required.
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Are there any recent or forthcoming planned major repair projects? Are
there any major repairs needed to buildings or structures that have not
been planned or financed?

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No "major" repair programmes are envisioned for component properties,
nor at present would any seem necessary. All properties have been well
looked after for some decades, and major projects for restoration, or
upgrading long since carried out.
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**4b. Factors affecting the property**

***(i) Development Pressures (e.g., encroachment, modification,
agriculture, mining)***

Are there development pressures affecting the property? Or major changes
in traditional land use? Or demographic shifts, especially in sites
still in the hands of the descendants of their creators, or, for
example, traditional ethnic communities.

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_Very little development pressure is currently affecting the
subject properties. It is a local axiom that it is the lack of
development pressures over a century that have permitted the survival of
the French period heritage to the extent achieved.
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***(ii) Environmental pressures (e.g., pollution, climate change,
desertification)***

Are there major sources of environmental deterioration currently
affecting the property?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

***(iii) Natural disasters and risk preparedness (earthquakes, floods,
fires, etc.)***

Are natural disasters likely to present a foreseeable threat to the
property? If so, are there available background data (e.g., for a
property in a seismic zone, give details of past seismic activity, or
the precise location of the property in relation to the seismic zone,
etc.)

YES: \_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_The flooding of the Mississippi has been a recurring fact of
life for properties in Ste Genevieve, Fort de Chartres, for the Holy
Family Church in Cahokia, and to a lesser extent the Pierre Menard
House, (itself witness to the inexorable destruction of Kaskaskia by the
River). The Army Corps of Engineers since the great floods of 1993 and
the follow on flood of 1996 has been working to reduce risk to the most
exposed communities along the Mississippi; the likelihood of the
so-called "500 year flood"(which is how the flood of 1993 was described)
again affecting these river side communities in a major way has been
much reduced.

Are there contingency plans for dealing with disasters, whether by
physical protection measures or staff training?

YES: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_Contingency risk preparedness measures have been in place
for decades given the long time experience of Mississippi side
communities in dealing with flooding. The 1993 flood devastated the
Mississippi valley; flood waters rose to close to fifty feet above
normal adjacent Ste Genevieve for example, given the impact of various
nearby dams and levees which channeled flood waters toward Ste
Genevieve. However the citizens of Ste Genevieve drawing very much on
their own resources, were able to keep sufficiently far ahead of the
rising waters with sand bags to protect the French heritage in their
hands. Risk preparedness measures in place are substantially stronger
than those in place in 1993.

***(iv) Visitor/tourism pressures***

If the property is open to visitors, is there an established or
estimated \"carrying capacity\" of the property? Can it absorb or
mitigate the current or an increased number of visitors without
significant adverse effects?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_\_A carrying capacity measure has not been established to
manage tourism. Tourism agencies in both States are well aware of the
attractiveness of the sites which are the subject of this application.
Their efforts are at present directed at increasing tourism but are also
aimed at increasing the quality of the visitor experience.

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***(v) Other***

Are there any other risks or threats that could jeopardize the
property's Outstanding Universal Values?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_x\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_No.
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**5. PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT**

**5.a. Ownership**

Provide the name(s) and addresses of all owners:

Fort de Chartres, R.R.2, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois.

Owner: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

1 Old State Capitol Plaza

Springfield, Illinois 62701 -- 1512.

Reference contact: Paula Cross

Superintendent, Historic Sites Division.

> \(217\) 782-4836
>
> <Paula.Cross@Illinois.gov>

Pierre Menard House, 4230 Kaskaskia Street,\
Ellis Grove, Illinois.

Owner: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

1 Old State Capitol Plaza

Springfield, Illinois 62701 -- 1512..

Reference contact: Paula Cross

Superintendent, Historic Sites Division.

> \(217\) 782-4836
>
> <Paula.Cross@Illinois.gov>

Church of the Holy Family, 116 Church Street, Cahokia, Illinois 62006.

Owner -- Diocese of Belleville

> The Chancery\
> 222 South Third Street\
> Belleville, IL 62220
>
> phone: 618.277.8181\
> fax: 618.277.0387\
> email: <info@diobelle.org>
>
> Reference contact : John Reed
>
> Tel. 618-337-4548 Fax: 618-332-1699\
> <hfamily1699@aol.com> or
>
> <chaunceyreed@aol.com>
>
> 618-332-8493

The Felix Valle Historic Site, Ste Genevieve, Missouri, includes

-   The Felix Valle House, 198 Merchant St., Ste Genevieve, MO.

-   The  Bauvais Amoureux House, Ste Genevieve, 327 St. Mary Road, Ste.
    Genevieve MO.

Owner: Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources.

P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102

Reference contact: Doyle Childers, Director

Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources.

> Reference contact: James Baker, Site Administrator\
> Felix Valle House State Historic Site\
> P.O. Box 89\
> Ste. Genevieve, MO   63670\
> (573) 883-7102\
> e-mail:    <felix.valle.state.historic.site@dnr.mo.gov> 

The Guibord Valle House,  4th & Merchant Streets Ste Genevieve, Mo.  

Owner: The Foundation for the Restoration of Ste. Genevieve. Inc.

> 198 S. Second Street\
> P.O. Box 88\
> Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670.
>
> Reference contact: Mickey Koetting, President; Robert Mueller, Vice
> President\
> Foundation for the Restoration of Ste. Genevieve\
> P.O. Box 88\
> Ste. Genevieve, MO   63670\
> (573) 883-9622  office    or (573) 883-5850

The  Bolduc House, 123 S. Main St. Ste Genevieve, MO    63670.

Owner: The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, in the
State of Missouri.

Reference contact: Lorraine Stange,

Director, Bolduc House Museum Properties, NSCDA-Mo.

> c/o 125 South Main Street\
> Ste. Genevieve, MO    63670\
> (573) 883-3105  office   or (573) 883-3359  Home

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If any of these owners are corporations or other nongovernmental
entities, identify which are public and which private. Identify any
traditional or customary owners.

Private organization owners:\_

Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve, Inc.

> Established in 1967, the Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve,
> Inc. was created to insure the protection of the town\'s historic
> resources. While preservation of the community\'s historic properties
> is its primary goal, the organization also actively promotes interest
> in Ste. Genevieve\'s history.
>
> While the Foundation has not attempted to accomplish its ends through
> direct property ownership, it recently acquired and restored the 1813
> Kiel-Schwent House for its headquarters and office. It also owns the
> Guibourd-Valle House, which it operates as a museum.
>
> The Foundation also sponsors the \"Friends of the Cemetery,\" a group
> dedicated to repairing, preserving, and beautifying the 200-year-old
> Memorial Cemetery in Ste Genevieve.

The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (in the State of
Missouri)

> The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America is dedicated to
> furthering an appreciation of our national heritage through historic
> preservation, patriotic service, and educational projects. The NSCDA,
> founded in 1891, is an unincorporated association of 44 Corporate
> Societies with over 15,000 members. The Society headquarters is
> located at Dumbarton House (pictured below), a Federal period museum
> in Washington, D.C.
>
> The NSCDA in Missouri is involved with two historic properties in Ste.
> Genevieve: the [Louis Bolduc
> House](http://www.nscda.org/museums/missouri.htm#LOUIS%23LOUIS) and
> the [Bolduc-LeMeilleur
> House](http://www.nscda.org/museums/missouri.htm#BOLDUC%23BOLDUC).\_\_

The Belleville Diocese (Illinois, USA) of the Roman Catholic Church.
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For properties having multiple owners, is there any representative body
or agent which speaks for all owners? If so, does that representative
body or agent have authority to act on behalf of all the owners? If so,
provide the name and address of that representative body or agent:

"*Les Amis*"

c/o Arts and Education Council, 3547 Olive, St. Louis, Mo. 63103.

> Reference contact: Robert Fulstone -- **President**
>
> 4 Buckhammon Place
>
> St. Louis, MO 63124

e-mail: Bob Fulstone <bfulstone@sbcglobal.net>

> Reference contact: Elizabeth Gentry Sayad -- **Chairman Emeritus**
>
> 41 Westmoreland Place
>
> St. Louis, MO 63108

. e-mail: Elizabeth Sayad <esayad@aol.com> (314)367-4030

*Les Amis* ("The Friends"), a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, was
organized in 1994 as a permanent support group for the French heritage
programs of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Its origins
are rooted in the French Heritage Relief Committee formed during the
Flood of 1993 for the preservation and support of the endangered
historic resources of Ste. Genevieve and the surrounding historic French
colonial corridor. Sparked by the Committee's donation of the 18^th^
century Bauvais Amoureux House to the state park system, *Les Amis*
promotes the preservation, interpretation, and purchase of historic
property in Missouri's unique French colonial region.

Les Amis' greatest achievement, and indeed its most daunting continuing
task, is to bring the region's notable French colonial history to the
attention of the general public. Public interest and concern is vital to
the continued preservation and further understanding of the region's
colonial past.

[The statutes of *Les Amis* (ARTICLE IX - Corporate purpose and powers)
note in Section 1 the following:]{.underline}

> "*Purpose:* The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable,
> educational, religious or scientific purposes within the meaning of
> Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and such other
> superseding sections thereof. The purpose of the Corporation is to
> support and contribute to state owned properties, both real and
> personal property, of French heritage in and around Ste. Genevieve,
> Missouri and to provide similar assistance and support to French
> heritage properties and activities beginning in St. Louis, in the
> Creole Corridor on both sides of the Mississippi River. The
> Corporation shall raise funds to help obtain, restore, operate and
> maintain such properties and to promote public interest in and
> appreciation of such properties with the assistance of the State of
> Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and other
> entities or organizations, including the City of Ste. Genevieve and
> other public and charitable bodies with similar goals, both in
> Missouri and Illinois".

*Les Amis* has provided considerable financial support for preservation
in the region. By 2006 the *Les Amis* Endowment Fund was over \$400,000,
which has allowed income for additional staffing and the extension of
public viewing hours. During the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase,
*Les Amis* raised \$150,000 to fund restoration of the Amoureux House.

In November, 2005, the Board approved a bylaw amendment to broaden
responsibilities to include the entire Creole corridor on both sides of
the Mississippi River. At that time, a committee of board members and
elected officials began work to have the Creole Colonial District of
Illinois and Missouri nominated a UNESCO World Heritage Site by the end
of the decade.

The owners of the properties included in this nomination have delegated
to Les Amis the authority to speak on their behalf in terms of
developing and presenting this application for inclusion on the American
tentative list of potential World Heritage properties to the National
Park Service.
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Are there any restrictions on public access to the property?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:All of the properties are regularly open for public viewing at
hours indicated in public information documents, web sites and
brochures.
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**5.b. Protective designations**

What are the principal existing (and pending) legal measures of
protection that apply to the property?

Protection of these properties has been achieved primarily through the
instrument of ownership. Four of the properties are owned by State
authorities whose mandate is preservation of historic properties, these
included. Two others are owned by private not for profit organizations
whose purpose is to assure preservation of properties they acquire. The
seventh property is owned by the Roman Catholic Church who have
recognized in their actions for over 60 years the historic importance of
the Church of the Holy Family. The present application also layers in
the co-ordination activities of *Les Amis*, a not for profit
organization set up following the floods of 1993, and who have assisted
in raising funds to support conservation activity on these sites, and
strengthened efforts to promote Creole heritage throughout the region.

List of measures:

-   All of the component properties are National Historic Landmarks.

-   Ste Genevieve National Historic Landmark District. The initial
    boundaries of this District Landmark were established by Dr. Ernest
    Allan Connally in 1970. These were later revised to exclude areas
    without contributing buildings, and extended to include areas with
    contributing resources, including the Comon Field, the Old Town
    located within the Common Field, the Delassus --Kern House and the
    site of New Bourbon, a Ste Genevieve satellite settlement. All of
    the Ste Genevieve properties included in the application are part of
    the Landmark District.

-   National Historic District of Ste Genevieve (which includes the four
    properties included in this application).

-   The historic core of Ste Genevieve is also recognized under a local
    Landmarks District designation.  This provides protection for the
    properties as a result of the local Landmarks legislation which
    requires property owners to submit plans to a board for review, in
    order to receive a \"certificate of appropriateness\" prior to
    making any alterations to the exterior of buildings in the so-called
    \"H-1\" historic district. This includes the area in which may be
    found the four Ste Genevieve properties named in this application.
    Design Guidelines for change in this area have been established and
    published.

-   Management by recognized public authorities:

    -   Fort de Chartres, Pierre Menard House -- Illinois State Historic
        Preservation Agency

    -   Felix Valle Historic Site (including the Felix Valle House,
        Bauvais Amoureux House) -- Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources

-   Management by recognized private organizations

    -   Guibord Valle House, Foundation for the Restoration of Ste
        Genevieve

    -   Felix Valle House, National Society of Colonial Dames in the
        State of Missouri

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Give the title and date of legal instruments and briefly summarize their
main provisions. Provide the year of designation and the legislative
act(s) under which the status is provided.

Titles, dates, and brief summaries of legal instruments:\_

**National landmark Status achieved:**

Fort de Chartres 10/09/60

Pierre Menard House 04/15/70

Holy Family Church 04/15/70

Ste Genevieve Historic District 10/09/60

> Includes Louis Bolduc House, Guibord Valle House, F. Valle House,
> Bauvais Amoureux House

Louis Bolduc House 04/15/70 (separate designation as individual
property)

National Landmark Status is primarily about recognition. Owners of
National Historic Landmarks agree to designation of their property and
are free to privately manage their properties as they choose.

Are the protections in perpetuity or are there potential gaps in the
protection?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_x\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_\_All of the component properties are fully protected,
essentially in perpetuity. Perpetuity of course can never be understood
as fully absolute and depends on the longevity of the Governments of
Illinois and Missouri, of the Catholic Church, and of the Colonial Dames
and the Foundation for the Restoration of Ste Genevieve, but this is as
close to perpetuity as can reasonably be expected.
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Are there any traditional ways in which custom safeguards the property?

YES: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:
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**5.c. Means of implementing protective measures**

Will the owner(s) be responsible for ensuring that the nominated
property will be protected in perpetuity, whether by traditional and/or
statutory agencies? If no, identify who will be responsible.

YES: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

What is the adequacy of resources available for this purpose? Please
briefly explain your reasoning.

All of the properties benefit from long established funding bases be
they in public hands or private, and funding adequate to ensure
reasonable annual maintenance expenditure levels appears secure.

In particular, it is worth noting that *Les Amis* acts as a support
group for the Amoureux House, with commitment of \$100,000 to an
Endowment Fund for its maintenance. Les Amis has been partners with the
State of Missouri since the property was given in 1994 to the State by
the French Heritage Relief Committee, Les Amis' predecessor .  

*Les Amis* have also set a precedent for soliciting and managing funds
for joint promotion of properties within the region, including those in
this application, in preparing and printing a brochure on the historic
sites contained within the "Creole Corridor". Both the Southwestern
Illinois Tourism and Convention Bureau and Missouri Tourism have just
agreed to re-print 40,000 copies of this brochure.

**5.d. Existing plans related to municipality and region in which the
proposed property is located (e.g., regional or local plan, conservation
plan, tourism development plan)**

Concerning future efforts to strengthen preservation in Ste Genevieve:
The "Ste. Genevieve County National Historic Site Study Act of 2005
(Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate, in Jan. 2006,
authorized the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Director of
the National Park Service) to study the suitability and feasibility of
designating portions of Ste. Genevieve County in the State of Missouri
as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes. The study
area is "Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, which includes the
Bequette-Ribault, St. Gemme-Amoureaux, and Wilhauk homes, and the
related and supporting historical assets located in Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri". Sucha study could lead to recommendations to include
the area in question as a part of the National Park Service system, or
to encourage its development as a National Heritage Area,

It is interesting to note that the Bauvais-Amoureux property includes 3
parcels acquired by the State has, as the house itself sat on a very,
very small lot. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources plans
eventually to remove the modern "Jacob House", adjacent to the Bauvais
Amoureux House, in order to re-establish the viewshed between the
Bauvais Amoureux House and the nearby Bequette-Ribault House, another
late 18^th^ or early 19^th^ c. French house of great antiquity and
architectural interest (privately owned). .

There is also growing co-operation in place among the state tourism
organizations (Southwestern Illinois Tourism and Convention Bureau and
Missouri Tourism) and others at the local level to strengthen the links
between all the sites involved with French or Creole heritage in the two
states and to present the shared experience as part of a plannedcultural
itinerary. This diversifies and enriches interest for visitors but also
spreads the tourism impacts around a greater number of deserving sites,
rather than concentrating visitation at just a few places. *Les Amis*
have played a large role in stimulating this co-ordinated approach to
promoting and managing the properties concerned. This approach is best
typified in the Creole Corridor brochure produced by *Les Amis*, 40,000
copies of which are currently being reprinted with financial support
from Illinois and Missouri.

**5.e. Property management plan or other management system**

Is there a formal management plan or other management system for the
property? If yes, when was it last updated? If not, is one in
preparation and when will it be completed

YES: \_\_\_\_x\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_Each of the component properties has a well developed and
long implemented management system in place focused on sustainable
transmission of the values of the property. In all cases but one, the
properties comprising the application are operated as museums/ historic
sites for public enjoyment, and in such cases the management objectives
of the operators only reinforce the goal of communicating the essential
values of the site. In the exceptional case, that of the Holy Family
Church in Cahokia, concern for the historic character of the church has
guided the parishioners for close to 60 years since restoration of the
1799 structure took place, and is very much a part of the efforts of the
site's managers to balance concern for the requirements of faith and the
requirements of historic preservation.

At present, there is no formally co-ordinated management system linking
these properties except their involvement in preparation of this
application, but *Les Amis*, with the concurrence of the owners of the
component properties have the capacity to provide an informal management
framework cohering the management efforts of all partners around the
shared desire to preserve and protect the attributed outstanding
universal value of the nominated property.
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Is this management plan or other management system being effectively
implemented?

YES: \_\_x\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ NO: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Comment:\_\_\_See above.
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**7. DOCUMENTATION**

**7.a Photographs, slides, and other audiovisual materials**

Images being supplied and names of their authors:

Photos included in Appendix and (photo credits supplied).
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**8. CONTACT INFORMATION**

**8a. Preparer/Responsible Party for Contact:**

**Name: Herb Stovel.
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**Title: Professor, School of Canadian Studies, Heritage Conservation
Programme, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
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**Address:\_\_36 Acacia Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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**City, State/Territory, Zip Code: \_\_\_\_\_K1M 0P4.
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**Telephone:\_\_1.613.746.1834\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**Cellular phone:
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**Preferred Days/Hours for Contact: \_any hours.
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**Fax: \_\_1.613.520.3903.
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**E-mail and/or website:
\_\_\_\_<hstovel@gmail.com>.\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**8.b. Responsible Official or Local Institution/Agency**

If different from the preparer above, provide the same information for
the agency, museum, institution, community or manager locally
responsible for the management of the property. In the case of public
property, identify both the responsible official and the agency. If the
normal reporting institution is a national agency, please also provide
that contact information.

**Name: Les Amis. (See above, under 5(a)).**

**Address:\_** c/o Arts and Education Council, 3547 Olive,

**City, State/Territory, Zip Code:** St. Louis, Mo. 63103.

> Reference contact: Robert Fulstone -- **President**
>
> 4 Buckhammon Place
>
> St. Louis, MO 63124

e-mail: Bob Fulstone <bfulstone@sbcglobal.net>

> Reference contact: Elizabeth Gentry Sayad -- **Chairman Emeritus**
>
> 41 Westmoreland Place
>
> St. Louis, MO 63108

. e-mail: Elizabeth Sayad <esayad@aol.com> (314)367-4030

**9. Signatures of All Owners of Private Properties or Authorizing
Officials for Public Properties:**

**Note: Consent signatures are included in the Appendix.**

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**Signature**

**Typed or Printed Name**

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**Title**

**Date**

(Please attach as many additional signature pages as may be necessary.)

**[Application Document Appendix : Plans, Consent Signatures and
Photographs]{.underline}**

**[Plans]{.underline}**

![](media/image1.jpeg){width="3.90625in" height="2.6770833333333335in"}

**Plan of lot containing Bauvais Amoureux House, Ste. Genevieve,
Missouri**

![](media/image2.jpeg){width="5.729166666666667in" height="4.125in"}

Plan of Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

![](media/image3.jpeg){width="5.997916666666667in"
height="7.674305555555556in"}

**Plan of Holy Family Church, Cahokia, Illinois**

![](media/image4.jpeg){width="2.3541666666666665in" height="3.90625in"}

**Plan of Felix Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri**

![](media/image5.jpeg){width="5.989583333333333in" height="3.90625in"}

**Plan of Guibord Valle House, Ste. Genevieve Missouri**

![](media/image6.jpeg){width="4.5625in" height="3.9791666666666665in"}

**Overview plan of Fort de Chartres location, Illinois**

![](media/image7.jpeg){width="2.5833333333333335in"
height="3.9791666666666665in"}

**Plan of Fort de Chartres, Illinois**

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**Plan of Pierre Menard House, Illinois**

**[Consent Signatures]{.underline}**

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height="7.674305555555556in"}

**Consent signature, Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri**

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height="7.674305555555556in"}

**Consent signature, Guibord Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri**

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height="7.674305555555556in"}

**Consent Signature, Holy Family Church, Cahokia, Illinois**

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height="7.669444444444444in"}

**Consent signature, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, for Fort de
Chartres and Pierre Menard House, Illinois.**

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height="7.669444444444444in"}

**Consent signature, State of Missouri, Dept. of Natural Resources, for
Felix Valle State Historic Site (Felix Valle House, Bauvais Amoureux
House)**

**[Photographs]{.underline}**

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**Felix Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Photo:**
**http://www.genealogysource.com/stegenevieve.htm**

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**Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Photo:
http://www.genealogysource.com/stegenevieve.htm**

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**Guibord Valle House, Ste. Genevieve Missouri. Photo:
http://www.genealogysource.com/stegenevieve.htm**

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**Bauvais Amoureux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Photo :
http://www.ste-genevieve.com/histsite.htm**

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height="6.250694444444444in"}

**Holy Family Church, Cahokia, Illinois. Photo:**
**http://www.greatriverroad.com/stegen/clair/logchurch.htm**

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**Fort de Chartes, Illinois. Photo: Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency**

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height="2.9791666666666665in"}

**Pierre Menard House, Illinois. Photo: Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency**

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height="2.8118055555555554in"}

**Lamontagne House, Rimouski Quebec. Photo: Repertoire du patrimoine
culturel du Quebec**