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The John Harrington Stevens House is a historic structure in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Named for John H. Stevens, it was the first authorized house on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis. The house is the second oldest remaining wood-frame house in Minneapolis (the Ard Godfrey house is older).
- 1849
- Greek Revival
- November 25, 1969
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
On June 30, 1983, to commemorate the house’s first move, school children pulled the Stevens House, with the help of a truck driver, 200 yards to its current location. After the completion of its move and restoration by the Junior League in 1985, the John H. Stevens House was open as a public museum.
Jun 22, 2021 · The John H. Stevens House Museum is typically open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Admission is $1. Eric Roper oversees Curious Minnesota, the Star Tribune's community reporting project fueled by ...
Feb 24, 2020 · The Longfellow House and Stevens House co-sponsor 90-minute historic nature walks through the park. History. Originally located near St. Anthony Falls, the house was home to Col. John H. Stevens and is believed to be the first home built west of the Mississippi in Minneapolis. Stevens had permission in 1850 to occupy the site, which was part of ...
Jul 8, 2022 · The John H. Stevens House was once considered such a revered artifact of Minneapolis history that a campaign to save it in the 1890s — launched by this newspaper — resulted in thousands of ...
John H. Stevens. Stevens during his time on the Minnesota Legislature. John Harrington Stevens (June 13, 1820 – May 28, 1900) was the first authorized colonial resident on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was granted permission to occupy the site, then part of the Fort Snelling military ...
Oct 16, 2008 · The John H. Stevens House is the earliest example of historic preservation in Minneapolis. In the 1890s, a Minneapolis Journal reporter located the house and started a campaign to preserve it. In 1896 the house was moved to Minnehaha Park, where it sat vacant until the 1980s.
