The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

