This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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