The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Twin Cities Area
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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