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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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