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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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