Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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