This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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