Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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