Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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