It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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