Maison Lamontagne House

Built around 1744 for Marie-Agnès Lepage, daughter of the Lord of Rimouski, and her husband Basile Côté, Maison Lamontagne House later passed to their daughter Geneviève Côté in 1791, who enlarged it on the eastern side wall at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1844, the house was acquired by the Lamontagne family, who kept it until 1920. One of the oldest residences in the Lower Saint Lawrence, it is a fully realized example of the French-inspired house. Its two frames, one half-timbered pierroté for the old section and the other half-timbered on sole for the extension, preserve construction techniques common in the 17th and 18th centuries that now survive in few examples in Quebec. It was classified as a historic monument by the Minister of Cultural Affairs on March 7, 1974.

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