The Big Stone House in Barnesville, MN

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Originally uploaded by nekosoft.

Forgot to post this when I took the picture in March. Doesn't the snow look refreshing?

In the small town of Barnesville, there sits a mammoth house well apart from the rest of the town. I asked a realtor: what's the deal? Why is it the only stone house in town. He told me that in the early days of the town, the land belonged to a doctor from out east. He set broken bones and delivered babies and when the farmers in the area didn't have money to pay him, he had them bring the stones they picked from their fields. It was these stones the doctor used to build his home.