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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

