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Historic Site of the Lamontagne House

(Museum)

Historic Site of the Lamontagne House

This residence built in 1750 during the French regime currently houses a number of exhibits on subjects such as architecture and archaeology.

(Museum)
The Lamontagne house was built in the vicintity of 1740 by Marie-Agnès Lepage and her husband Basile Côté. Their daughter Geneviève put additions on the house in about 1810, and the Lamontagne family took up residence in 1844. The building is noteworthy due to its stone-filled half-timber construction, a technique that involves placing vertical wooden planks several centimetres apart and filling the intervening space with a mixture of stone and clay. The walls are then covered with a stucco of slaked lime and sand. Originating in the Middle Ages, the technique was employed frequently in Europe until the end of the French Regime; however, it was ill-suited to the North American climate. The building’s addition employs a different mode of construction, known as “full timber.” The combined use of two building methods makes the Lamontagne house a unique specimen of early residential architecture in the province. Classified a historical monument by the Québec government in 1974, the house has become an interpretation centre.

Contact Historic Site of the Lamontagne House

707, boulevard du Rivage
Rimouski-Est , G5L 1H2

Phone: (418) 722-4038
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Web: www.maisonlamontagne.com

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