The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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