If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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