The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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