The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
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The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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