The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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