The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown