The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown