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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
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...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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