The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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