Joseph-Gauvreau House
Rimouski, Canada
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Built in 1906–1907 for Dr. Joseph Gauvreau in Rimouski, Quebec, this eclectic Queen Anne–style house originally served as both the physician's residence and the site of his medical practice and hydrotherapy clinic, which gained renown throughout the province. Gauvreau was a pioneer of hygiene and preventive medicine in Quebec until an amputation in 1909 forced him to cease practice. The house survived the devastating Rimouski fire of 1950 but was moved in 1951 to make room for a filling station. Threatened with demolition in 1984, citizen efforts secured its classification as a heritage building in 1985. After Réjean Frenette purchased and restored it to its early twentieth-century appearance in 1998, relocating it back to its original site, the house began housing a chocolate factory and meeting rooms in 2007.
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- Type
- house
- Heritage
- classified heritage immovable
- Place
- Rimouski, Canada
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