Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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