Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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