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Joseph Robidoux III
House

Block 6B
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Francis Benoist Residence (Robidoux-Sanguinet Residence), 1790. Ink on paper by
Clarence Hoblitzelle, 1897. Acc. #1897.22.57
Courtesy Missouri Historical Society

[Block 6A]

This large stone house was built by Joseph Robidoux III in 1802. A tall stone tower with a steep pointed roof stood behind the house, and had a bake oven in it which supplied St. Louis with bread. The Robidoux family moved to Block 5 in 1806, but their house was used for public purposes thereafter. In 1812 the first session of the Missouri Territorial House of Representatives met in this house.


Sanguinet Residence, aka Benoist Residence, aka Robidoux Residence, Main and
Elm Streets, St. Louis. Photograph, ca. 1870. GPN Residences II-5.
Courtesy Missouri Historical Society

 


Francois Benoist or Joseph Robidoux Residence.
Daguerreotype by Thomas M. Easterly. Easterly 92
Courtesy Missouri Historical Society


The view from the site of the Robidoux House looking eastward toward the Mississippi River.