Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Twin Cities Area
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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