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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown