Pierrotage Explained

Pierrotage is a half-timbered timber framing technique in which stone infill is used between posts. It was used in France and by French settlers in French Canada and Upper Louisiana.^[1]

See also

• Bousillage
• French architecture
• French colonization of the Americas
• New France
• Poteaux-en-terre
• Poteaux-sur-solle
• Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
• Vernacular architecture

Notes and References

1. "Pierrotage, pierotage" def. 1. Edwards, Jay Dearborn, and Nicolas Verton. A Creole lexicon architecture, landscape, people. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 155. Print.