I have been traveling to Grand Rapids, Minnesota for over six years now. My wife and I would take at least a half dozen trips a year and often times more. After seeing this property the first time, I always knew I wanted to be able capture it in a photo. There was just something about it that drew me in each time.
A funny thing started happening with our trips. The property started eluding us. Now while I had been traveling this route for six years, my wife had been traveling these roads her entire life. She knew this route extremely well and it too began to elude her. I would be at the ready with my camera to pull over and take some shots…. and about 90% of the time we could not find it. MInd you, it sits right on the road of a well traveled highway in northern Minnesota.
We began to call the place ‘Brigadoon’, showing up at unexpected times as we would pass by. Finding that the only time we would really see it was when we were not looking. A mysterious property with old buildings and a sense of history, it leaves you wondering what you could learn if these structures could talk. Maybe the spirits of the land come and go with the property…. just like in Brigadoon.
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