The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
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...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

