Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

