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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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