The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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