The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

