The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

