The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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