The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

