This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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