Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
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...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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