It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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