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