University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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