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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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