The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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