Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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