Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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