World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Twin Cities Area
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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