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...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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