Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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