The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

