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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
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...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor 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