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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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