The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

