Comments on: Friday, May 29, 1896: Schoolchildren move a house

By: dirt

dirt — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:43:48 +0000

The pic with the 2 ladies standing there in 1900, is actually the backside of the house !

By: sheryl h.

sheryl h. — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:47:46 +0000

I love this. It came just as my class was studing about the stevens house and the history of minneapolis. BTW my great grandmother is also in the picture of the school children pulling the house

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:02:38 +0000

How could this be:

“There were mothers who have no children…”

Mothers who have no children? HUH?

By: Bruce L

Bruce L — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:21:22 +0000

I love these kind of articles and hope you can have some more in the future. They are very educationsl. Thank you!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:46:25 +0000

Oral history passed down to me from my father: re the picture of the Stevens house (on page 3)being pulled by the school children… the man sitting on the roof of the house was his father, my grandfather, Ed Peterson. He worked for the housemover by the name of Pratt.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:33:28 +0000

Hi, Pat. Thanks for your posts. The Stevens House, relocated a short distance in 1982, is open to the public during the summer.

By: Pat Drew

Pat Drew — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:12:09 +0000

A second thought…whatever happened to the Stevens’ home? Has it been preserved? Torn down?

By: Pat Drew

Pat Drew — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:09:17 +0000

I LOVE these archived articles. What i particularly like is the style of writing during the latter part of the 1800s. Because of the wordy style, I had to re-read several of the sentences to understand them.

Keep these articles coming!!!! they’re a great insight to past times!