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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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