The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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