University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown