The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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