Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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