The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

