Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

