The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City