In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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