The Bolduc-LeMeilleur House

The LeMeilleur House from the street

The Bolduc-LeMeilleur House at 123 South Main Street was built around 1820. While not a vertical log house, it retains much of the French Colonial architecture prevalent in the mid-Mississippi River Valley that owes its inspiration to France and the French Caribbean. This house has served many different purposes including a private home, a convent school run by the Sisters of Loretto, a blacksmith’s shop, and a car repair shop. Like the Bolduc House it has been carefully restored by The National Society of the Colonial Dames in America in the State of Missouri.

The Bolduc-LeMeilleur House"

  • Items on display include a horse hair sofa, a whale oil lamp, a set of dominoes, and a rope bed
  • The room is interpreted at about 1820 showing a later life-style than that portrayed in the earlier Bolduc House across the fence.


Three portraits on display in the LeMeilleur House Period Room:



Portait of John Smith T, a friend and perhaps murderer of Capt. Meriwether Lewis  John Smith T, a friend and perhaps murderer of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis & Clark fame
Emilie Emilie. Painted in memory of her.
Jean-Baptiste Sebastian Pratte, Louis Bolduc’s acquaintance and the executor of his estate. Jean-Baptiste Sebastian Pratte, Louis Bolduc’s acquaintance and the executor of his estate. His grandson, Bernard, Pratte, Jr., was an early mayor of St. Louis