Pierrotage
Appearance
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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
[edit]- Bousillage
- French architecture
- French colonization of the Americas
- New France
- Poteaux-en-terre
- Poteaux-sur-solle
- Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
- Vernacular architecture
References
[edit]- ^ "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.