University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
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...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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