The Stimler residence in the early 1900s was the home of an early Foley businessman. The Tony Stimler family lived in Duelm before moving to Foley. He started a blacksmith shop in Duelm and in 1903 his advertisement appeared in the Foley paper, announcing the shop in Foley. It was located in a frame building that stood on the corner of the Foley Locker plant.
Stimler also was a mechanic and a July 1903 Foley paper tells of Dr. Armitage of Princeton whose car was hung up on a road and hauled to town by a span of horses. A. V. Stimler fixed the machine and the snortin' puffin' smokin' machine went out of town with the noise of seven threshing machines.
This residence was the home of the Stimler family in Duelm. On December 21, 1906, Albert Latterell engineered the job of moving the house to Foley on logging sleds. The home was located on the corner lot just north of the present Thompson residence. Porches were added to the house, changing its appearance; otherwise the house remains much the same as it was then.
An early car is in the picture with Rupert Stimler, son of A. V. Stimler, with his cousins in the car. Next to the car was Paul Stimler, a brother of Tony, the man with hat and white shirt. The next man is not identified. The Stimler daughters are pictured next. First was Alma who married Al Hamer, who was quite a ball player in the Foley baseball boom days. Florence Sauer is next and the little girl in the buggy is Marie Stimler, who later married John Parent, President of the State Bank of Foley for many years. Fourth is Helen Stimler and then Mrs. A. V. Stimler. Later Tony Stimler built a garage and became a car dealer.

-- from "Picture Story of Early Foley Days"
Benton County News, Foley, Benton County, Minnesota
Wednesday, May 31, 1978
Photo from Joe Kotsmith Foley Historical Collection