Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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