The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

