Pierre Bottineau House
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Maple Grove, Minnesota 55369
USA
 House Exterior - from Trail showing wayside signage | |
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| Established | 2009 (House built circa 1854) |
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| Location | 12600 James Deane Pkwy Maple Grove, Minnesota 55369 USA |
| Coordinates | 45°08′07″N 93°26′34″W / 45.13531°N 93.442825°W |
| Type | Historic house museum |
| Website | website |
The Pierre Bottineau House is a historic frame house in Maple Grove, Minnesota, now located in Elm Creek Park Reserve and used as an interpretive site. It dates to the 1850s and connects to the life of guide and settler Pierre Bottineau and to early European American settlement in the area.[1][2]
Pierre Bottineau built the house in 1854 on land that later became part of Maple Grove and Osseo, in an area once known as Bottineau's Prairie. He was Métis, the son of an Ojibwe mother and a French Canadian father, and the house reflects his role in early settlement and regional trade networks. The structure served as his family home and housed some of his many children from two marriages.[3][4]
In 1908 owners converted the building into a granary, which changed its function but kept the basic structure in use. Later preservation efforts led to its restoration as a historic house that interprets the lives of early settlers in Hennepin County.[3]
The house stood at several locations as residents and preservation groups moved it to protect it from demolition and to place it in a setting close to its original environment. In 2009 it was moved to Elm Creek Park Reserve near the chalet, where it opened as a public site under Three Rivers Park District.[5][6]
