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...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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