Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
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...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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