Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion 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 Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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