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...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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