The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

