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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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