In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
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...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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