The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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