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Dating back to 1850, the John H. Stevens House is one of the oldest surviving structures in Minneapolis, and the first in the area to be built west of the Mississippi River. John Harrington Stevens, sometimes called the “Father of Minneapolis,” constructed the house north of its present location, near Hennepin Avenue Bridge. Stevens acquired the land from the U.S. War Department, in ...
Dec 2, 2020 · The John H. Stevens House was transported by schoolchildren. This piece of rope, held in the collection at Hennepin History Museum, is a fragment of one of the ropes used the first time schoolchildren moved the house in 1896. Col. John H. Stevens built the house in the winter of 1849-50. Locals recognize the significance of the house as the ...
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 ...
Primary Sources The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens (Volumes 1 and 2) v. 1. January 1814March 1865, Volume one covers Steven’s political career from his Vermont youth to the end of the Civil War. It includes letters and speeches from his early days as a
John Harrington Stevens (1820–1900) was the first non-Native resident on the west side of the Mississippi River in present-day Minneapolis. He operated a ferry across the river before the construction of the first Hennepin Avenue Bridge and subsequently became a colonel in the U.S. Army.
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Jun 22, 2021 · John H. Stevens had just served in the Mexican-American war in 1848 when he came to Minnesota, then still a territory, for health reasons. The west bank of the Mississippi River, now downtown ...
