The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

