The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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