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Fort Kyk-Over-Al is older (built in 1616) but no longer fits the definition of a building. French Guiana Prefecture Building: Cayenne French Guiana: 1749–1752 Monastery: Oldest extant building in French Guiana. Currently serves as the seat of the Prefect of French Guiana. [68] Court House: St. John's Antigua and Barbuda: 1750 Courthouse
The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan rivers, and as far north as James Bay. Built between the 1640s and the 1750s, a few were captured from rival British fur trading companies like Hudson's Bay Company.
This is the oldest building in Oregon and is believed to have been constructed by fur traders of French Canadian and/or Native American ancestry. [106] The next closest contenders are the Methodist Mission Parsonage c.1841, the Jason Lee House c.1841, the Delaney-Edwards House c.1845, the John McLoughlin House c.1846, and the John D. Boon House ...
[2] [3] [4] He came back in 1541 with some 400 persons to establish Fort Charlesbourg-Royal, the earliest known French settlement in North America (whose site is located in the former town of Cap-Rouge, which merged into Quebec City in 2002). The fort was abandoned a year later in large part due to the hostility of the natives combined with the ...
2. St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. A church has stood in the center of Louisiana's French Quarter’s historic Jackson Square since 1727. The current cathedral, largely restored in the mid-1800s ...
Most French colonial buildings, now mostly transformed for public use, are located in large urban areas, namely Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), and Phnom Penh (Cambodia). There are also some colonial buildings were built in China due to French concessions and other interests in the country during 19th and 20th centuries.
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C. French forts in Canada (43 P) F. ... Pages in category "French forts in North America"
The Louis Bolduc House, also known as Maison Bolduc, is a historic house museum at 123 South Main Street in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri.It is an example of poteaux sur solle ("posts-on-sill") construction, and is located in the first European settlement in the present-day state of Missouri.