The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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