Jacques Guibourd Historic House

A great tour. Although the house has been renovated, the floors, as well as some doors and windows are original. Plus the tour takes you to the attic so you can see the Norman Truss construction.

Love the old homes

We came to St Genevieve to enjoy the historic charm of a small town. When we came to the historic site tour, we had very little idea about the nature and style of the $6/ person tour which, overall was incredibly informative, and quite enjoyable.

We found it strange that the tour guide never gave her name, but then asked each of us personal information about our occupations, and what we wanted to be when we grew up (presumably to get to know us)... However, The tour guide kind of put each of us down/kind of insulted us when we told her our occupations and our dream jobs. Two of the four of us are in the food service industry (essential workers during the pandemic) and the tour guide was incredibly insulting in regards to what we do and what our dreams were.... but I digress.

The first part of the tour was mildly chaotic as there had been another couple there and the guide was attempting to address both groups. Eventually she caught her rhythm and began to give an in-depth history lesson from which I was able to learn a lot about Ste. Genevieve's history. We were then shown the other rooms of the house.

The place is beautiful. Filled with beautiful antiques. Lots of spiritual energy in the space. The upstairs is available to tour which is a first for me in a historical home. Upstairs is a single room with a small model home, a few flags, and a spindle (which I found to be weird since the guide said the town had basically no weavers since the French traded flour for fabric... ) We did not stay long upstairs which seemed to surprise the tour guide as she was already unmasked and ready to give up on the tour. We did not see the kitchen or slave quarters as it seemed the guide was done, but we did have an overall enjoyable time.

Interesting

Visite très (trop) longue . Aucune traduction en français