The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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