The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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