The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

