This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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