The Lost Renner Farm - A Once Beautiful Minnesota Family Farm that is Vanishing with Time
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- Only crumbling remains are left of the once thriving Carl and Lydia Renner family farm from the early 1920's. Multiple buildings, including the farmhouse, barn, silo, and other outbuildings were constructed of burnt-orange brick and block from the A. C. Ochs Brick & Tile Company of Springfield, Minnesota. View the original farmstead layout, and take a walk through what's still there in 2022.
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With the value of land for crops it is amazing the owner of the property has not removed the structures and trees.
In Iowa, such buildings, even though uninhabitable, are still seen as 'improvements' to the property and taxed accordingly. That's why there aren't many old, unoccupied farmsteads as there once were. Only windbreak trees to show there was once human activity there.
It's unbelievable how fast places fall apart when they are no longer occupied. Very sad to see, what a nice place in it's day.
These old places break my heart. New Mexico is full of them, and you wonder how somebodies hopes and dreams went so wrong.
Many abandoned farmsteads across the Midwest. If the walls could talk...
I love how You explain the history of the area and then walk around the area to show us what You were explaining.
The brick seems to have held up well. Just the wooden parts of the structures that have deteriorated. Such a sad and lonely place now.
I was thinking the same on the bricks and tile.
Was a nice place . Cant believe someone didnt buy it at some point
I guarantee it's owned by someone. Lots of hunting property now a days bought from owners of the old small farms. $$$$$$ If it has any tillable you rent that part out., or put in food plots, or plant trees.
It can be very sad for so many family's, to see how the grand parents or the parents worked hard, built a family home and farm , made a fairly prosperous living, just to have the children grow up and slowly leave, leaving everything to rot. As this story was told, this was only a 2 generation farm. It is very common and normal in many European countries where a family has lived and worked the same land and lived in the same home for many generations, 4,5,6 and many more generations. As the parents grow older, the children take over and run the farm and take care of the parents.
Both sons seemed inclined to leave the farm, although one continued farming. Hopefully the surviving family members received a nice payday when they sold.
So much great handiwork goes into those beautiful homes and they are just abandoned
Since Renner is my surname, the title caught my eye. My Renner family was located primarily in Indiana, but Renner is a fairly common name in Germany. It's an interesting story well-told. It's sad to see a homestead be abandoned and fall into disrepair. The place will likely be dismantled when the economics work for the property owner.
Heart breaking 💔 to see such beautiful buildings go to waste, who owns the land now? How come nobody is taking care of it? So many questions now!!!!
There is another one on the farmstead at the SW corner of County Rd 45 and County Rd 153 in Crow Wing County. On can look at it on Google Street View. Exactly two miles south of CR 45 and CR117 intersection.
Reminds me of my grandfather s farmstead in Kansas
Thanks for the great video.
I have seen one of those exact ACO silos at 1:38 somewhere else in Minnesota. I want to say somewhere off the highways that go from Canby or Madison up to Willmar country. I always thought that said " ARCO" from a long ways away.
What a shame! Imagine the pride they took when they were building this; only for it to end up in runs and forgotten.
I can only imagine how horribly cold those brick houses were compared to wood construction with insulation of the time.
And so it goes. Future owners brought the property for the land and not the buildings. Anyone with any ties to the property had moved on and history is all that's left.
So sad. Here in Manitoba we have wonderful old houses on farms that ended up as granaries and now are just crumbling!
Not true, I'm Carl's great great grandson. Still owned and run by Renners
Thanks for the information. Property still in the family. Families decision to move on from the homestead.
Fun video. Renner did ok in America. Was surely proud owning a nice farm with nice buildings. Those people worked and worked and worked. His genes are still digging in on that chunk of Minn land. Land of opportunity still producing for the Renners. Love it.
@@thebeardfarmer7862 why didn’t anyone in the family keep the house etc up and live there?
Too cold to heat and renovate unfortunately. Did you see the smokehouse with the bar across the top?
Why would they stucco over brick?
To hide the brick.
It's a sad fact of the depopulation of the Great Plain.
I grinned at the trees growing over the hay rake.
I'm surprised that the land owner hasn't cleared the derelicts? He hasn't out of respect to the memory of the Renners? Around here, farmers will let buildings sit wrecked for so long before demolishing them for more tillable acreage or developers clear them to build platts/subdivisions.
Why would they stucco over that beautiful brick?
i wonder if they are related to the ochs family on veggie boys
how did you find this place if it was lost.
Renner sounds pretty German!
This farmstead has gone the same way the MN government. So sad
Buildings have to have a roof or they will go down just a kid with some roofing nails could have saved it at one point in time
sad
Love the video, sad history. Could do without the piano.
I wonder why the boys didn’t just take over the family farm instead of moving onto some place else????