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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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