The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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