University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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