The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

