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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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