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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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