{This is the photo I posted to my Instagram the other day. I decided to convert the photographs to b&w to convey its antiqued moodiness that hovers around the farmhouse as you pass it. }
Dear Diary,
Visible from our property stands an abandoned farmhouse that piques my
curiosity.
It is obvious someone is trying to maintain the property.
I try to assume what the surrounding area may have looked
like when this farmhouse wasn’t
abandoned. At some point, there was a farmer here collecting his livelihood
from the fields. He came home each night, possibly to a wife and children,
judging by the pink window treatments that still hang on one of the windows.
And I admit that it saddens me a little to know at some
point, the earth no longer sustained the inhabitants here. Instead, as the city
of Minneapolis and its suburbs expanded south, the farm grounds became
subdivisions. Eventually, those inhabitants shut the door behind them, never to
return again.
Try as I might, I
cannot determine a house number for research on its property record.
Questions remain – what is so significant about this house
that the city is letting it stand? And if it has been saved from demolition,
why isn’t it being restored to resurrect its former glory?
WHO is trying to care
for this property?
There is a very good
possibility that I will never know this home’s story.
And I'm not sure I can let it remain unknown.
And I'm not sure I can let it remain unknown.
