The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...

