The Minnesota Transportation Museum will celebrate the rebuild of the Justus Ramsey Stone House on museum grounds Wednesday.

The one-room house, which was erected around 1857, was owned by Justus Ramsey, the brother of Alexander Ramsey, first territorial governor of Minnesota and the state’s second official governor. Justus Ramsey never actually lived in the home, according to Frank White, a board member with Historic St. Paul, a preservation organization, though it housed various families associated with the railroad industry from 1890 to 1933.

The badly damaged house was saved from demolition and taken apart in 2023 and placed in storage around 30 minutes north of the Twin Cities. The Minnesota Transportation Museum eventually agreed to adopt the house and make it part of a permanent outdoor Pullman porter exhibit, the Pioneer Press reported in 2024.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, according to the museum website.

The museum’s kickoff event will take place at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at 193 Pennsylvania Avenue East in St. Paul. More information on the museum and house can be found at trainride.org.

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