[3] The Janis family continued to own the house and tavern until 1833 when it was purchased by Mathias and Barbara Ziegler.

[4] They ran the tavern and shop until the 1850s when the family closed them down and converted the building back into a house.

In 1976 Norbert and Frankye Donze, a local couple involved in many historic preservation efforts in Ste.

[4] In 1985 Professor Osmund Overby of the University of Missouri led a second HABS team to document the house.

The flood also covered the 1803 stone retaining wall, built by Francois Janis, which is today uncovered once again for visitors to behold.

Subsequently, in 1996 it was purchased by Hilliard J. Goldman, who began an extensive restoration of the house.

This French poteaux-sur-sol method of construction uses a type of infill between the logs called bousillage, a mud and debris mix (straw, grass, and hair typically).

Notably, it has pegged Anglo-American rafters instead of a Norman truss system traditionally used in French houses around the area.

On two of the columns are masonic symbols and on other columns are the initials of Francois Ziegler, Henri Janis, and an "N.J."[3] An important part of the restoration that occurred was the reconstruction of the second triangular fireplace and a missing staircase both of which had been removed in a 1860s renovation of the house.