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
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...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
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