Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital 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