The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

