University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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