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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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