The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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