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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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