Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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