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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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