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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

