This is the house I grew up in, 1 year before I was born and my parents purchased it. I believe the prior owners last name was Perry.
So few trees in the yard! In 1998, my Mom sold the home place and 11 acres of the river bottom land (the mature trees at the top of the picture). Those trees hide the Cannon River. At the time, there was 22 acres of tillable land to the west (right) of the barn, Mom had divided that field into 4 parcels 2 years before selling the home place; she gave me one, kept the next to build her new log home on, gave the one west of that to my brother and kept the remaining one to sell for retirement income.
The two trees alone in the lower right died and I cut them down about 2008. They were just inside the property line between the home place and the parcel I now own.
I don't remember the two farm buildings between the house and the large barn. I do remember the foundation for the larger of the two remaining. Eventually in the late 70's my parents constructed a roof over it and we stored equipment and firewood under it. The far side was open because the ground slopes down quickly toward the river bottoms. The property had an artesian well (one where the water flows to the surface without being pumped) on it to the east (left) of the house; in my childhood I was always curious why there was a line running from it close to the barn. From this picture, I now know: they watered the livestock from it and used it to keep the milk in the cream cans cool.
The porch on the front of the house is gone, we replaced it with a deck shortly before selling the house. Shortly after purchasing the property, my parents constructed a 40" square pole shed behind and to the left of the house; it remains today. The barn remains standing, albeit with a new tin roof that the current owners put on it. I remember shooting a LOT of pigeons in the hay loft of that barn with a Crossman 760 BB gun!
The Vintage Aerial photo from 1998 (30 years later) is here: https://vintageaerial.com/photos/minn...
It is the most recent photo of this property in their archive.