Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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