The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

