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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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