One of the goals of our remodel and rehab efforts is to ensure that the exterior of the house stays true to the Shingle building style of the late 1800’s. Since the Shingle style was started on the east coast and later migrated inland to the midwest, we want to know what the local Shingle style homes would have looked like. Anne had already contacted the local historical society to see if they by chance had old pictures of our home. This ended up not being the case, but they do have a large collection of pictures of local homes.

Anne had therefore put in a research request and the day before my trip to MN, we received an email with a variety of homes listed that were built around the time of our vacation home.

I decided that a visit to the office to pay the research fee and just to chat would be a good use of my time. And it was,  found two pictures that reflected the Shingle style extremely well.