The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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