Homeowners uncover trove of long-lost love letters during renovation project
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Ahead of Valentine's Day comes a love story for the ages. It was lost for decades but unearthed when a young couple decided to give their Minneapolis home a facelift.
Ahead of Valentine's Day comes a love story for the ages. It was lost for decades but unearthed when a young couple decided to give their Minneapolis home a facelift.
"To us, it's kind of cool to see a little bit of the past," said homeowner Matt Tessmer.
There's a saying that, if the walls could talk, they would have many interesting stories to tell. For Matt and Carrie Tessmer, those walls with words to share could be found upstairs.
"It's truly a mystery how any of this stuff made it into our wall," Carrie Tessmer laughed.
It all started back in November 2020 when they decided to renovate their relic of a restroom inside their more than a century-old home. It was that process of peeling back layers and layers of paint and plaster just behind the toilet that revealed treasures from lifetimes before.
"Take some rubble, put it to the side and there'd be more stuff after," said Matt Tessmer. "It is trash to those people, but to us it's kind of cool to see a little bit of the past."
Inside were numerous toiletries once manufactured down the street.
