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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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