The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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