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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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