As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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