St. Jacques Heritage House Museum
by Beaumont & District Heritage Society/La société d'histoire de Beaumont
The Beaumont & District Heritage Society has successfully upgraded the St. Jacques family home in Beaumont – the oldest building still standing – and it now serves as an interactive museum and community center.
The circa 1912 home sat on a 5.1-acre parcel of land just east of St. Vital Catholic Church. The developer, who owned the property that the home stood on for 107 years, donated the house to our Heritage Society in 2018.
On August 1, 2018 we were delighted to finally take possession of the home and on September 7th of that same year we moved it to its new foundation. We had considerable TV media coverage of the exciting event. The money we raised at that time paid for the move, as well as the new basement.
With phase 1 completed the next phase was to repair, upgrade and restore the home as well as develop its new basement. Landscaping and completing the 8-stall parking lot and handicap accessible walkway was the third and final phase. We held our Grand Opening on May 25, 2025 and we have entertained hundreds of visitors since.
Our new project is to repair the outside of most of the windows, make some stucco patches and repaint everything on the outside once this is done.
