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The last section of roof is removed Thursday from the 90-year-old barn in Eagan, which will be put back together at
Murphy's Landing living history site in Shakopee. It's costing $40,000 to take apart the barn and move it.
Old barn gets new life
on living history site
• Murphy's Landing finds what it needs
BILL GARDNER STAFF WRITER
The old barn is coming down, its cornfields replaced by a Cub
Foods store.
If 85-year-old Anna Boesel feels a twinge of sadness at the
loss of the family's barn, she doesn't show it.
"It doesn't bother me," said Boesel, quick with a laugh as she
looked out her kitchen window at a world closing in on her old
Eagan farmhouse.
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Anna Boesel, 85, watches as the barn on her Eagan farm is
dismantled. Her six daughters are more upset about the
barn's coming down than she is, she said.
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old-fashioned games and demon-
strations. The barn will be dedi-
cated at 6 p.m., followed by a
dance until 10 p.m. Music will be
provided by the Sir Brothers
Band.
Admission to the village is
$10 for adults; $8 for students
and senior citizens. Children up
to age 5 are free when accompa-
nied by an adult. A $2 discount is
available when purchased in ad-
vance.
Tickets are available at the
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The last section of roof is lifted out of place at the Boesel Barn in Eagan on July 27. (Bill
Jones/Staff Photographer)
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But the 90-year-old barn isn't
dying. It's merely leaving. Work-
ers are carefully dismantling it
for a move to Murphy's Landing in
Shakopee, where it will be put
back together and spruced up for
new generations to enjoy.
Murphy's Landing is a living
history site with buildings ar-
ranged in chronological order to
depict the history of the Minnesota
River Valley. The site's previous
barn burned down two years ago,
and officials have been looking for
a replacement.
Boesel's barn is a post -and -
beam type with hand-hewn pegs
that hold it together. It will cost
$40,000 to take it apart and move
it to Murphy's Landing.
In Boesel's lifetime, Eagan has
gone from an area of mostly
farms to an area of hardly any
farms. She and her husband, Fred,
who died four years ago, took over
the farm in 1930, about four de-
cades before Eagan became a
city.
The family went to St. Paul for
clothes and to West St. Paul for
groceries. They didn't get electric-
ity until 1937 and indoor plumbing
until 1946.
Anna Boesel still lives in the
two-story brick farmhouse on the
small plot she and her husband
retained after selling the 120-acre
farm to Hoffman Development in
1969.
The past two decades have
brought the world to her doorstep.
Interstate 35E now runs along the
edge of the old farm, with a Tar-
get and a Cub Foods on another
edge. Hoffman is planning to build
townhomes in September next to a
small lake that was on the farm.
The Cub store is within easy
walking distance, but her husband
didn't like it.
"He wouldn't go shopping there
and didn't like it if I did," Boesel
said. "He said you should patron-
ize the smaller stores. But I shop
there. Why shouldn't I? It's right
out the front door."
From inside, the farmhouse still
looks rural. A heavy -haired collie
named Duchess is stretched out on
the kitchen floor of linoleum
squares. A wood stove sits in
kitchen, and the woodwork is oak.
Boesel's six daughters visit fre-
quently, and she says they are
more upset about the barn's com-
ing down than she is. They loved
to play in the hayloft, and one
daughter had her wedding dance
in the barn.
"They think things should stay
as they were," Boesel said.
The barn will arrive at Mur-
phy's Landing in early August to
be reassembled and painted red.
On Aug. 20, an old-fashioned barn
raising is scheduled from 10 a.m.
to 10 p.m.
Murphy's Landing is seeking do-
nations to help with the cost of
moving the barn, and also volun-
teer painters. Major donations of
money and materials have been
made by Spookyworld, Coca Cola,
the Stans Foundation and Home
Valu. For more information, con-
tact Murphy's Landing at
445-6901.
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Shindig planned for
Boesel Barn dedication
• Murphy's Landing to use former
Eagan barn as interpretive area for
large school groups.
By Sue Hegarty
Staff Writer
An Eagan barn's summer -long move
and restoration culminates Aug. 20 in an
old fashioned "Barn Raising Shindig" at
its new location.
After the shindig, the barn will be used
for farm life interpretation and as an ed-
ucation area for large school groups. It
will house a portion of Spookyworld, a
new Halloween theme park opening in
October.
The barn, formerly owned by Eagan
residents Anna Boesel and her late hus-
band, Fred, was moved off its foundation
last week and set on another at Murphy's
Landing, a historical village in Shakopee
just west of Savage on Highway 101.
"I am happy that our barn will be pre-
served at Murphy's Landing. I hope many
generations to come will enjoy it," Boesel
said.
A fire two years ago destroyed the barn
that the Boesel barn is replacing. It is the
first Eagan building to be added to the
historical village.
"It is especially appropriate that this
building is coming to our site. It will make
a great addition to our facility," said
Shirley Olson, executive director for Mur-
phy's Landing.
The village is a living history site con-
sisting of buildings from the 1800s
arranged in chronological order to depict
the history of the Minnesota River Valley.
Hoffman Development purchased the
land under the barn from Boesels in the
late 1960s. Hoffman, who plans on build-
ing townhouses on the farmland, donated
the barn to Murphy's Landing.
It was dismantled in sections by
Stubbs Building Movers with special care
because of its post -and -beam construction
and the hand-hewn pegs that held it to-
gether. Moving crews delivered the barn
Aug. 8 and volunteers began painting it
Aug. 9 in anticipatitGof the shindig, said
Olson.
A full day's activities are scheduled for
Aug. 20, beginning with an 11 a.m. church
service. Activities include story telling,
tethered balloon rides, children's theater,
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barn's coming down than she is, she said.
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But the 90-year-old barn isn't
dying.It's merely leaving. Work-
ers are carefully dismantling it
for a move to Murphy's Landing in
Shakopee, where it will be put
back together and spruced up for
new generations to enjoy.
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Interstate 35E now runs along the
edge of the old farm, with a Tar-
get and a Cub Foods on another
edge. Hoffman is planning to build
townhomes in September next to a
small lake that was on the farm.
The Cub store is within easy
walking distance, but her husband
didn't like it.
"He wouldn't go shopping there
and didn't like it if I did," Boesel
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Boesel
Anna A., age 91, of
Eagan, died on Feb. 14,
2002. Preceded in death
by loving husband, Fred;
and son-in-law, Stanley
Sell. Survived by daugh-
ters, Laverne (Kenneth)
Detlefsen, Irlene (Joseph)
Schuster, Lucille Sell,
Ruth (Alvin) Volkmann
Irma (Douglas) Bork and
Judy (Barry) Fletcher; 8
grandchildren; 15 great-
grandchildren; 1 great -
great -grandson; and
s ters-Iinlaw, Ella and
Dorothy Englert. Funeral
Service 2pm Tue at
TRINITY LONE AK
CHURCH, 2950 Hwy.
55, Eagan. Visitation 4-
8pm Monday at KLE-.
CATSKY & SONS FU-
NERAL HOME, 1580
Century Point (Yankee
Doodle @ Coachman),
Eagan, and 1-2pm Tues-
day at church. Interment
Trinity Lone Oak Church
Cemetery. Memorials
preferred to church or
donor's choice.
J. S. Jllecatsky & Sons
- }Eagan Funeral Home
r 651-454-9488