Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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