The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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