The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

