The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

