The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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