The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston