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
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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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