This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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