The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

