Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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