It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown