It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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