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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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