Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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