The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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