Located in the Acadian Village on Route 1 in Van Buren, the Roy House was originally located in Hamlin, Maine, and moved to its current location after 1977. The log house features piece-on-piece (or pice sur pice) construction with hand-hewed or squared timber stacked together and held at the corners in the "stacked and pegged" style. This method of construction was popular with French Canadian settlers, but the University Maine at Fort Kent notes this configuration had not been physically documented previously. The Roy House is a rare surviving structure from the Acadian settlement of the St. John Valley. The British Crown deported the Acadians from their land in Nova Scotia during the French and Indian War (1754-1758). Some escaped the deportation and arrived on the lower St. John River as refugees and settled with the Maliseets until Loyalists from the American Revolution came and pushed them out. The Acadians petitioned for land in the Upper St. John Valley, above Grand Falls. The first families arrived in the Madawaska area by the summer of 1785. The Acadian Village contains over a dozen buildings that represent this heritage and is open seasonally for visitors.
Year Listed: 1977
For more information: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=c9078140-a69c-4e73-a457-6d8efcfe9d6f
https://acadianvillage.mainerec.com/http://acim.umfk.maine.edu/acadian_village.html