The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
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...
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
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
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...

