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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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