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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
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