The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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