Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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