The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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