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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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