The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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