The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

