In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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