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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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