University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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