The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown