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