This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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