University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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