Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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