This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

