As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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