This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
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