The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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