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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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