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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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