The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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