The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

