Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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