Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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