As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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 Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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