Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
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