Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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