This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston