This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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