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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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