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Abandoned log barn

An abandoned log barn on the Matt and Kaisa Hill farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County. Wayne Gudmundson, Testaments in Wood: Finnish Log Structures at Embarrass, Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991), 60. From the book: “This deteriorated barn was divided into two pens by a log partition and had walls made of unhewn logs secured at the corners with saddle notches. It is one of six log buildings on the Hill farm” (78).

Sauna (#6)

Sauna built ca. 1920s on the Matt and Kaisa Hill historic farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County (09715#22A). Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988.

Smoke sauna (#5)

Smoke sauna on the Matt and Kaisa Hill historic farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County (09715#24A). Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988.

Cattle barn

Cattle barn on the Matt and Kaisa Hill historic farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County (09715#23A). Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988.

Map of the Matt and Kaisa Hill Farmstead

Detail of a map of the Matt and Kaisa Hill Farmstead (Pike Township, St. Louis County) submitted with the National Register registration form for the property in 1990.

Matt and Kaisa Hill farmhouse (19A)

Matt and Kaisa Hill’s farmhouse, Pike Township, St. Louis County. Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988 (09715#19A). Public domain.

Matt and Kaisa Hill farmhouse (21A)

Matt and Kaisa Hill’s farmhouse, Pike Township, St. Louis County. Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988 (09715#21A).

Matt and Kaisa Hill Farmstead, St. Louis County

Located near the community of Embarrass, Matt and Kaisa Hill’s farmstead was one of a collection of rural properties in central St. Louis County that exemplified Finnish immigrants’ imprint on the cultural landscape of northern Minnesota in the early 1900s.