The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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