The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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