The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
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
Old Brewery In Preston