Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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