The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...

