This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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