When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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