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...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
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