The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
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