Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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
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