The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

