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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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