Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park Cultural Landscape Report, Part I
Raths, Raths & Johnson and Liz Sargent, HLA. 2025. Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park Cultural Landscape Report, Part I. Cultural Landscape Report. National Park Service. Midwest Regional Office, Interior Regions 3, 4, and 5
This Cultural Landscape Report (CLR), Part 1 for Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park presents the historical documentation portion of a planning document for the entire cultural landscape. A CLR is the principal treatment document and primary tool for long-term management of a cultural landscape. CLRs provide both short- and long-term strategies for the preservation of highly significant landscapes by articulating the nature and rate of change of landscape features over time and guiding management and treatment decisions. Part I of the CLR provides historic and existing conditions documentation, analyzes the significance of the property, and identifies landscape features contributing to significance. Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park is located in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a community of approximately 4,500 residents located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, 64 miles south of St. Louis. Ste. Genevieve is a partnership park, and visitors learn about the history of the community, its culture, and its context in the Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center, owned by the City of Ste. Genevieve. Ste. Genevieve is significant in American history in part as one of the first organized European settlements west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri and for the ongoing presence of the largest assemblage of extant French vernacular log structures in the United States. The architecture of the buildings combines French traditions with influences from various other places, including Canada, Africa, and the Caribbean. Ste. Genevieve reflects French colonial settlement within the context of the impact of exploration and settlement on local Indigenous populations and the migration of groups. It is also part of a larger Mid-Mississippi Valley region known for a distinct culture and traditions (reflecting a period between colonial settlement during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the mid-nineteenth century), influenced by race and ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and labor, both free and enslaved.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Raths, Raths & Johnson; Liz Sargent, HLA
- Date of Issue
- 2025-05
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- MWR , STGE
- Keywords
- Bauvais- Amoureux House, cemetery, church, courthouse, Delassus-Kern House, flood, French colonial, French exploration and settlement, historic preservation, industry, jail, Janis-Ziegler House, Jean Baptiste Vallé House, vernacular architecture
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International
Series
See also
- Historic Structure Report: Bauvais-Amoureux House, Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
- Historic Structure Report: Delassus-Kern House, Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
- Historic Structure Report: Jean Baptiste Vallé House, Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
- Historic Structures Report: Janis-Ziegler House, Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
- Cultural Landscape Report, Part II: Janis-Ziegler House (Green Tree Tavern), Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park