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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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