719 S Main St, Saint Charles, Missouri, 63301
Circa 1799 – This early building on Block 25 was said to be built by a Frenchman born in Quebec Toussaint Hyancinthe Cerre (Serre) and so it is referred to as “the French House”. Cerre was related to the families of Chouteau and Soulard in St. Louis. A wealthy French Canadian, Cerre had married into another wealthy French family, that of Marie Roy, whose family had come fom Kaskaskia to San Carlos in 1796. She would die in 1802, while we were still under the control of Spain. She would be buried in the early San Carlos de Borremeo Church cemetery north of here on Main. This is most likely the earliest log building still standing on Main Street yet today.
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