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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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