Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 89002350 Added to NRHP 9 February 1990 | Built c. 1790 (1790) Architectural style French Colonial | |
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Location First St. at Old Rt. 3, North Dupo, Illinois | ||
The Pierre Martin House is a French Colonial House located at the intersection of First Street and Old Route 3 in North Dupo, Illinois. The house, one of the oldest in Illinois, was built circa 1790 in what was at the time the French village of Pierre du Pont, which was established during a wave of French settlement in southwestern Illinois. It is one of six surviving poteaux-sur-sol buildings in Illinois and the only one owned by an upper-middle-class individual. The poteaux-sur-sol style, known in English as post on sill, used vertical logs to construct houses; the style, originally developed in Europe, had faded in popularity before French colonists revived it. Only 33 vertical log buildings remain in the United States; of these, the Pierre Martin House is one of only two with a dressed stone basement.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 1990.