Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Twin Cities Area
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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