In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown