The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

