Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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