The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

