Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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