The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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