University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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