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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital 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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul